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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

The meaning of this word is not very certain. 3y some it is said tliat to make a multitude there must be ten persons at least, while others contend that the law has not fixed any number. (Cote ii'tt. 267.) Bouvier. In a legal sense, merely two riotous persons cannot constitute a multitude.

Pike V. Witt, 104 Mass. 695.