Coventry Act
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The name given to the statute 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 1, which provided for the punishment of assaults with intent to maim or disfigure a person. It was so named from its being occasioned by an assault on Sir John Coventry in the street.
4 Bl. Comm. 207; State v. Cody, 18 Or. 506, 23 Pac. 891.