In Scotch law. A general term including all those convocations of the lieges for violent and un-lawful purposes, which are attended with In-Jury to the persons or property of the lieges, or terror and alarm to tbe neighborhood in which it takes place. The two phrases are usually placed together; but, nevertheless, they have distinct meanings, and are some-times used separately in legal language, the word “mobbing” being peculiarly applicable to the unlawful assemblage nud violence of a number of persons, and that of “rioting” to the outrageous behavior of a single individual. Alls. Crim. Law, c. 23, p. 509
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
