1692 Mass. Acts 11-12
| dc.coverage.spatial | Massachusetts | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T01:55:23Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T13:54:21Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T02:21:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1692 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prohibited riding or going armed offensively to cause fear or affray of the people. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | SECT. 6. That every justice of the peace in the county where the offence is committed, may cause to be staid and arrested all affrayers, rioters, disturbers or breakers of the peace, and such as shall ride, or go armed offensively before any of their majesties’ justices or other their officers or ministers doing their office or elsewhere by night or by day, in fear or affray of their majesties’ liege people, and such others as shall utter any menaces or threatening speeches; and upon view of such justice or justices, confession of the party or other legal conviction of any such offence, shall commit the offender to prison until he find sureties for the peace and good behaviour, and seize and take away his armour or weapons, and shall cause them to be apprized and answered to the king as forfeited; and may further punish the breach of the peace in any person that shall smite or strike another, by fine to the king not exceeding twenty shillings, and require bond with sureties for the peace, or bind the offender over to answer it at the next sessions of the peace, as the nature or circumstance of the offence may be; and may make enquiry of forcible entry and detainer, and cause the same to be removed, and make out hue and crys after runaway servants, thiefs and other criminals. | |
| dc.description.summary | This section empowers justices of the peace to arrest anyone disturbing the public order, making threats, or carrying offensive weapons in a way that terrifies the public. Upon conviction, offenders are imprisoned until they secure bonds for future good behavior, and their weapons or armor are permanently confiscated and forfeited to the King. Additionally, justices can fine individuals for physical assaults, investigate illegal property detentions, and issue hue and cries to pursue runaway servants and criminals. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4140 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Acts_and_Resolves_Public_and_Private/ouEwYQ-FKtUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA52&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | GOING ARMED | |
| dc.title | 1692 Mass. Acts 11-12 |