unlawful assembly

collocation in English

meaningsofunlawfulandassembly

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unlawful
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈlɔː.fəl/us
/ʌnˈlɑː.fəl/
not allowed ...
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assembly
noun
uk
/əˈsem.bli/us
/əˈsem.bli/
a group of people, especially one that meets regularly for a particular purpose, such as government, or, more generally, the process of coming together, or the state of ...
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(Definition ofunlawfulandassemblyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They were summoned to the local court for this very same thing—unlawfulassembly.
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Eleven persons have been arrested, and are now on bail awaiting trial on a charge ofunlawfulassemblyand malicious damage.
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Violence causing fear in the minds of a reasonably stout heart can be anunlawfulassembly.
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Most of the incidents that are referred to are incidents where there wasunlawfulassembly.
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He was charged with taking part in anunlawfulassemblyand with destroying the fence.
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They are more likely to lead tounlawfulassembly, or even an affray.
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It may be said that civil disobedience,unlawfulassembly, boycotting and subversive propaganda must stop.
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When they refused to do so, the police escorted the coaches to a police station and charged the occupants withunlawfulassembly.
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On the matter of law, six men were tried on three counts of conspiracy to intimidate,unlawfulassemblyand affray.
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Twenty-three of the men were charged withunlawfulassembly, and -the further hearing of the case has been.
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It frequently happens, if passions become aroused, that persons may be charged withunlawfulassemblyor riot.
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Yet we could be construed as anunlawfulassembly.
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We had a somewhat similar assize, and 209 people were charged withunlawfulassembly.
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Of the remainder, 62 were charged with affray, 44 with being members of anunlawfulassembly, and 47 with rioting.
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In this case six persons have been returned for trial on the charge ofunlawfulassembly, and have also been bound to keep the peace.
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The proper charge should have been one of riot andunlawfulassembly.
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They vary, in riot, between 18 and 30 in each of the years; ofunlawfulassembly, between seven and 19, and so on.
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To create fear of violence also came underunlawfulassembly.
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There isunlawfulassembly, that is to say, an assembly of persons assembled for an unlawful purpose.
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You will have to say whether, looking at all the circumstances, these defendants attended auunlawfulassembly.
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