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RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY Definition & Legal Meaning

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In English criminal law. The unlawful assembling of twelve persons or more, to the disturbance of the peace, and not dispersing upon procla- mation. 4 Bl. Comm. 142; 4 Steph. Comm. 273. And see Madisonville v. Bishop, 113 Ky. 100, G7 S. W. 209, 57 L. R. A. 130.

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