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UNLAWFUL. [L. Lat. illicita conffreffatio.l 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. Com. 146. Cotoell. Any meeting whatsoever of great numbers of people, with such circumstances of terror as cannot but endanger the public peace, and excite alarm ana consternation m the neighborhood.* 4 Steph. Com. 278. JVhartons Am. Crim. Law, 523. See Id. book 5, ch. 4.