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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
crim. law, is a disturbance of the peace by persons assembimg together with an intention to do a thing, which, if executed, would have made them rioters, and actually agrees in all particulars with a riot, except only in this, that it may be a complete offence without the execution of the intended enterprise. Hawk. c.
65, s. 14; 1 Russ. on Cr. 253; 4 BI. Com. 140; Vin. Abr. Riots, é&c. (A 2); Com. Dig. Forceable Entry, (D 9).