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Definition of Breach of the peace
1. Noun. Any act of molesting, interrupting, hindering, agitating, or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled.
Generic synonyms: Infraction, Infringement, Misdemeanor, Misdemeanour, Violation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breach Of The Peace
Literary usage of Breach of the peace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by Richard Burn, Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty (1837)
"... nor the trespass, were any breach of the good behaviour, for tin! none of them
did tend immediately to the breach of the peace ; for ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1793)
"224. ic is called a pro-vocation to a breach of the peace. ... Now that that
which tends only to * breach of the peace, is not an actual breach of it, ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1887)
"As a restraint on the commission of crime in the nature of a breach of the peace,
the court has power to bind a person in a penal bond to the State, ..."
4. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"... and he cannot without a warrant justify an arrest for a breach of the peace
which is not committed within his own view (s), unless a wound has been ..."
5. The Justice of the Peace,: And Parish Officer : in Five Volumes by Richard Burn, Charles Durnford (1810)
"... are provo. ations, yet they ten.! not immediately to the breach of the peace ;
as if William King had challenged Kyr- ton to fight with him, ..."
6. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"Voters shall, in all cases except treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be
privileged from arrest during their continuance at election and in going to ..."
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