Mutiny Act
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English law
A statute, annually passed, to punish mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. It was first passed April 12, 1689.
See 22 Vict. cc. 4, 5.
The passage of this bill is the only provision foi: the payment of the army, and, like our appropriation bills, it must be passed, or the wheels of government will be stopped. There is a similar act with regard to the navy.
1 BL Comm. 416, 417, note.