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TUMULTUOUS RISINGS (IRELAND) ACT 1831 - SECT 2

Persons who shall rise or assemble and compel any one to quit his house or employment, or assault any house, or injure property, or carry away horses, &c., shall be liable to imprisonment.

2. If any person or persons, rising or assembling in the manner mentioned in
the Whiteboy Act (Ireland), 1775, or in any other manner whatsoever, shall
unlawfully compel, or by force, threats, or menaces attempt to compel, any of
His Majesty's subjects to quit his, her, or their dwelling house, habitation,
farm, possession, place of abode, service, or lawful employment, or shall
maliciously assault or injure the dwelling house, place of abode, or
habitation of any other person or persons, or shall break into his, her, or
their house, habitation, barn, or outhouse, or cause any door to be opened by
threats or menaces, or shall maliciously injure the lands, goods or chattels,
or property, real or personal, of any other person or persons; or take or
carry away any horse, gelding, mare, or mule, or any gun, sword, or other
weapon, or any money or goods or chattels whatsoever, without the consent of
the owner, or shall cause the same or any of the same to be delivered to him
or them by threats or menaces; or shall in any manner whatsoever maliciously
dig up, turn up, pull up, cut down, prostrate, level, demolish, or injure the
lands, or crops growing or severed, or the walls, paling, hedges, or other
fences, or the cattle, goods, or chattels, of any other person or persons; all
and every person and persons so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted,
shall be liable to be [imprisoned for a term not exceeding seven years] ....

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