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Statute against rowdy behaviour
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riot act
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n. a vigorous reprimand; "I read him the riot act" a former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them
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The Riot Act (1714) (1 Geo.1 St.2 c.5) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that authorized local authorities to declare any group of twelve or more people to be unlawfully assembled, and thus have to disperse or face punitive action. The act, ...
Usage examples of riot act.
He read the riot act in all but barracks language in a voice so loud even I heard him, and my office is at the end of the corridor from the reception room.
The day Kit had hunted him down and read him the riot act about staying away from Kit’.
The magistrates make every concession and try every expedient, the mayor reading the riot act five or six times.
The day Kit had hunted him down and read him the riot act about staying away from Kit's granddaughter, Skeeter would've welcomed a double-gate day.
He had to take her statement, read her the riot act about shooting at people, and leave.
The riot act was every bit as unpleasant as he hac foreseen it would be, but somehow he managed to liv~ through itmostly by bearing in mind as firmly as pos sible that he had it coming.