Assembly, unlawful
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In criminal law. The assembling of three or more persons together to do an unlawful act, who separate without actually doing it, or making any motion towards it.
3 Inst. 176; 4 Bl. Comm. 146.
It differs from a riot or rout, because in each of the latter cases there is some act done besides the simple meeting.
See State v. Stalcup, 23 N. O. 30, 35 Am. Dec. 732 ; 9 Car. & P. 91, 431; 5 Car. & P. 154; 1 Bishi Crim. Law, § 535 ; 2 'Bish. Orim. Law, §§ 1256, 1259.