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RINGS, GIVING

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In English practice. A custom observed by Serjeants at law, on being called to that degree or order. The rings are given to the judges, and bear certain mottoes, selected by the serjeant about to take the degree. Brown. … [Read more...]

RIOT

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crim. law. At common law a riot is a tumultuous disturbance of the peace, by three persons or more assembling together of their own authority, with an intent, mutually to assist each other against any who shall oppose them, in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the … [Read more...]

RIOTOSE

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L. Latin: Riotously. A formal and essential word In old indictments for riots. 2 Strange, 834. … [Read more...]

RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY

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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 proclamation. 4 Bl. Comm. 142; 4 Steph. Comm. 273. And see Madisonvllle v. Bishop, 113 Ky. 106, 67 S. W. 269, 57 L. R. A. 130. … [Read more...]

RIOTOUSLY

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A technical word, properly used in indictments for riot. It of itself implies force and violence. 2 Chit. Crim. Law, 489. … [Read more...]

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