Black Act
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English law
The act of parliament 9 Geo. II. c. 22.
This act was passed for the punishment of certain marauders, who committed great outrages disguised and with faces blackened. It was repealed by 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c.
11. See 4 Bl. Comm. 245.