Five-Mile Act

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

An act of parliament, passed in 1665, against nonconformists, whereby ministers of that body were prohibited from coming within five miles of any corporate town or place where they had preached or lectured. Brown.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

An English statute of 1665, repealed in 1689, restricting the right of certain non-eon-forinists to preach.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

An act of parliament passed in 1665, forbidding nonconformists who refused to take the oath of non-resistance to come within five miles of any corporation in which they had preached since the passing of the act of oblivion in 1660, nullified by act of 1689.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

An act of parliament, passed In 1665, against non-conformists, whereby ministers of that body were prohibited from coming within five miles of any corporate town or place where they had preached or lectured. Brown.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Anactof parliament, passed in 1665, against non-conformists, whereby ministers of that body were prohibited from coming within five miles of any corporate town, or place where they had preached or lectured. Brown.