1795 Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 2, § 2; 1795 Mass. Acts 436
| dc.coverage.spatial | Massachusetts | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T01:55:25Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T13:54:23Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T02:21:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1795 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Commanded justices of the peace to arrest "all affrayers, ruiters, disturbers, or breakers of the peace, and such as shall ride or go armed offensively, to the fear or terror of the good citiens of this Commonwealth." | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Sect. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every Justice of the Peace, within the county for which he may be commissioned, 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, to the fear or terror of the good citizens of this Commonwealth, or such others as may utter any menaces or threatening speeches, and upon view of such justice, confession of the delinquent, or other legal conviction of any such offence, shall require of the offender to find sureties for his keeping the peace, and being of the good behaviour; and in want thereof, to commit him to prison until he shall comply with such requisition: And may further punish the breach of the peace in any person that shall assault or strike another, by fine to the Commonwealth, not exceeding twenty shillings, and require sureties, as aforesaid, or bind the offender to appear and answer for his offence at the next Court of General Sessions of the Peace, as the nature or circumstances of the case may require. [Jan. 29, 1795.] | |
| dc.description.summary | The law authorizes justices of the peace to arrest and require peace bonds from rioters, disturbers of the peace, individuals who go armed in a manner that terrorizes the public, or those making threats, with imprisonment for failing to provide sureties. It also permits fines and additional legal proceedings for assaults or other breaches of the peace. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4232 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_General_Laws_of_Massachusetts_from_t/qQ1HAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA454&printsec=frontcover; https://heinonline-org.libproxy.uwyo.edu/HOL/Page?handle=hein.ssl/ssma0327&id=2&collection=ssl&index=ssl/ssma | |
| dc.subject | GOING ARMED | |
| dc.subject | SURETY | |
| dc.title | 1795 Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 2, § 2; 1795 Mass. Acts 436 |