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...] about RIOT
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RIOTOSE
L. Latin: Riotously. A formal and essential word In old indictments for riots. 2 Strange, 834. … [Read more...] about RIOTOSE
RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY
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...] about RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY
RIOTOUSLY
A technical word, properly used in indictments for riot. It of itself implies force and violence. 2 Chit. Crim. Law, 489. … [Read more...] about RIOTOUSLY
RIPA
The bank of a river, or the place beyond which the waters do not in their natural course overflow. 2. An extraordinary overflow does not change the banks of the river. … [Read more...] about RIPA