• Breach of the peace or disturbing the peace, is a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries and in a public order sense in the...
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  • retainers. A breach of the king's peace, which could be either a crime or a tort, was a serious matter. The concept of the king's peace expanded in the 10th and...
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  • Look up breach in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breach, Breached, or The Breach may refer to: Breach, Kent, United Kingdom Breach, West Sussex, United...
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    definition of a breach of the peace is: There is a Breach of the Peace when, harm is actually done, or is likely to be done, to a person, whether by the conduct...
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  • Uniquely the power of arrest comes from a duty to prevent breach of the peace. (There is a wider duty to preserve the public peace on request by the police...
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  • Charter of the United Nations#Chapter VII – Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace and Acts of Aggression Chapter VII of the United...
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  • preventing a breach of the peace: It is lawful for any person who witnesses a breach of the peace to interfere to prevent the continuance or renewal of it, and...
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  • from arrest traveling to or from the legislature, does not apply to "treason, felony, and breach of the peace". The 1996 Constitutional Review Group recommended...
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    where there appears to be a threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression. The Assembly can consider the matter immediately with a view to...
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  • repossession is performed by the lienholder or by an agent, the repossessor must not cause a breach of the peace or the lienholder will be held responsible...
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    justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace. In past...
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  • of peace bonds and extant peace bond statute in Connecticut). See sources cited supra; see also Corpus Juris Secondum, 11 C.J.S. Breach of the Peace §...
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    Frey v Fedoruk (category Supreme Court of Canada cases)
    a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada on the definition of a breach of the peace and whether being a "peeping tom" is a crime. The Court found that...
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    section created the offence of conduct conducive to breach of the peace. This section was repealed by section 40(3) of, and Schedule 3 to, the Public Order...
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  • provision of law requires that repossession takes place, the lien holder has a non-delegatable obligation not to cause a breach of the peace (which is...
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    immediate breach of the peace. The fighting words doctrine, in United States constitutional law, is a limitation to freedom of speech as protected by the First...
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  • include the use of armed force when necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security in the case of a breach of the peace or act of aggression...
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    at courthouses and county buildings, protection of judges and juries, preventing breaches of the peace, and coordinating with city police departments....
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    international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace; To develop friendly relations among...
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  • Unlawful assembly (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    fear that the people so assembled will conduct a breach of the peace or will by such conduct provoke other persons to commit a breach of the peace". people...
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  • TWO is the second extended play by Welsh recording artist Charlotte Church. It is the second in a series of four EPs released by Church. Her second alternative...
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  • Blackmail (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Encyclopedia Americana with a Wikisource reference)
    libelous letters or letters that provoke a breach of the peace, as well as use of intimidation for purposes of collecting an unpaid debt. In many jurisdictions...
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  • the common law offence of breach of the peace (not to be confused with the minor English offence of the same description) before the introduction of the...
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    provoke breach of the peace). In 1996, Mishra was named a History-sheeter in the records at Tikonia police station. After a few months, the sheet was...
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  • Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders is a 2008 book by Eric Etheridge. The book features the life stories of over 80 of the...
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  • breach of the peace, so any mutual consent given by the fighters was vitiated by the public nature of the entertainment irrespective of the degree of...
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  • - Disturbing the Peace Include all charges of committing a breach of the peace. Include affray, unlawful assembly, disturbing the peace, disturbing meetings...
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  • accused of assaulting Brenda Page on various occasions and in various locations between 1972 and 1976. He was accused of breach of the peace by threatening...
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  • including in the case of a breach of the peace or act of aggression the use of armed force when necessary, to maintain or restore international peace and security...
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    international peace and security in any case where there appears to be a threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression, the General Assembly...
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