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Six Acts

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

THE. The acts passed in 1819, for the pacification of England, are so called. They, in effect, prohibited the traming of persons to arms; authorized general searches and seizure of arms; prohibited ■with heavy penalties and confiscations seditious and blasphemous libels; and checked pamphleteering by extending the newspaper stamp duty to political pamphlets. Brown.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

The acts passed in 1819 for the pacification of England.