Affray
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In criminal law. The fighting of two or more persons in some public place to the terror of the people.
53 Ala. 640; 15 Ark. 204; 57 Mo. App. 502.
It differs from a riot in not being premeditated; for if any persons meet together upon any lawful or innocent occasion, and happen on a sudden to engage in fighting, they are not guilty of a riot, but an affray only; and in that case none are guilty except those actually engaged in it. Hawk. P. C. bk.
1, c. 65; § 3; 4 Bl. Comm. 146; 1 Russ. Crimes, 271.
Fighting in a private place is only an assault.
1 Cromp., M. & R. 757; 1 Cox, C. C. 177; 22 Ala. 15; 29 Ind. 206.
AFFRECTAMENTUM (Fr. fret).
Affreightment
The word fret means tons, according to Cowell. Affreightamentum was sometimes used. Du Cange.