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CRIMINAL LAW.

BOOK X.

SPECIFIC OFFENCES.

For ABDUCTION OF WOMEN, as to both law and procedure, see Stat. Crimes. And see SEDUCTION.

ABORTION, as to both law and procedure, see Stat. Crimes.

ADULTERATED MILK, the selling of, as to both law and procedure, see Stat. Crimes.

ADULTERY, fornication, and kindred offences, as to both law and procedure, see Stat. Crimes.

Compare

CHAPTER I.

AFFRAY.

with the titles Riot and Rout in this volume. For the pleading, practice, and evidence, see Crim. Pro. II. § 16-30; Dir. & F. § 924, 925. As to the right to suppress affrays, see post, § 653-655, and Crim. Pro. I. § 166, 183. For other particulars, consult the indexes to this series of books.

§ 1. 1. Defined. An affray is the fighting together of two or more persons, either by mutual consent or otherwise, in some public place, to the terror of the people.1

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2. Distinguished from Assault From Riot Public. "An assault which happens in a private place, out of the hearing or seeing of any except the persons concerned, cannot be said to be to the terror of the people, and is thus distinguishable from an affray; and an affray differs also from a riot in this, that three persons at least are necessary to constitute a riot, whereas two

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1 Vol. I. § 535 (1).

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