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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.

Black Act

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Definition:
An English statute passed in 1722 to suppress bands known as “the blacks.”
Black Act

Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

Definition:
The statute 9 Geo. I. c. 22, so called because it was occasioned by the outrages committed by persons with their faces blacked or otherwise disguised, who appeared in Epping Forest, near Waltham, in Essex, and destroyed the deer there, and committed other offenses. Repealed by 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 27.