Riot

In criminal law. A tumultuous disturbance of the peace by three persons or more, assembling together of their own authority with an intent mutually to assist each other against any who shall oppose them, in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful. Hawk. P. C. c.

65, § 1.

See 3 Blackf. (Ind.) 209; 4 Blackf. (Ind.) 72; 3 Rich. (S. C.) 337; 5 Pa. St. 88. "Riot" includes both "unlawful assembly" and "rout" (q.v.), and the further element that there shall be not only a step towards carrying out the unlawful intent of the assembly, but that they shall proceed therein in a violent and tumultuous manner.