Mob

An unorganized assemblage of many persons intent on unlavrful violence; a riot involving a multitude. Bouvier, citing Alison, says that in Scotch law " mob " and " riot," though often used together, have distinct meanings, and are sometimes used separately in legal language, — the word mobbing being peculiarly applicable to the unlawful assemblage and violence of a number of persons, and that of rioting to the outrageous behavior of a single individual. This is not so in English jurisprudence; in that, riot, only, is the technical term; three persons are reword descriptive of a large and aggra<vated riot. See ArrRAY; Riot. The word mob is, however, drawn into the decisions somewhat, in consequence of statutes declaring cities or counties liable for injuries to property committed by mobs or riots, and which the municipal authorities fail to prevent; also, because insurance policies often except losses occasioned by mobs or riots. A clause in a Are insurance policy excepting " loss by flre occasioned by mobs or riots," does not extend to a loss caused by the burning of an adjoining bridge by order of the military authorities, to prevent the advance of an armed force of rebels. Harris v. York, &e.

Ins. Co., 50 Pa. St. 341.

Mobilia personam sequuntur, immobilia situm. Movable property follows the person of the owner, immovable property the locality. The mode of acquiring, enjoying, and transferring movable property is regulated by the law of the domicile of the owner; of immovable property, by the law of the place where the property is situated. Wills of chattels, executed according to the laws of the place of the testator's domicile, will pass personal property in all other countries, though not executed according to their laws. But wills concerning land must be executed according to the prescribed formalities of the country in which the land is situated.

4 Kent Com. 513; 2 Id. 67; 2 Greenl. Evid. § 6lJ8.