Coventry Act
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The name givent 0 the statute 22 & 23 Car. II. ¢. 1, which pro vided for the punishment of assaults with intent to maim ordisigure aperson. It was so named from its being occasioned by an assault on Sir John Coventry in the street.
4 BI. Comm, 207.