Lexic.us

Definition of Public violence

1. Noun. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Public Violence

Literary usage of Public violence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives by United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary (1920)
"In the Union of South Africa the offense of sedition appears bound up with the offenst; of riotous gatherings and incitements to public violence. ..."

2. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation, and Notes by William Gardiner Hammond (1876)
"Moreover, a person who hn.s expelled by violence another from his possession, is liable under the to Julia for private or for public violence ; for private ..."

3. Playing the "Communal Card": Communal Violence and Human Rights by Cynthia G. Brown, Farhad Karim (1995)
"... attempted murder and public violence] in the past two years...are still under investigation with no one being arrested and charged even where a suspect ..."

4. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation, and Notes by Thomas Collett Sandars (1859)
"... for private or for public violence ; for private violence, ... for public violence, if the expulsion from possession was made by armed force. ..."

5. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation, and Notes by Thomas Collett Sandars (1869)
"Moreover, л person who has expelled by violence another from his possession, is liable under the le.r Julia for private or for public violence ; for private ..."

6. The Institutes of Gaius and Justinian, the Twelve Tables, and the CXVIIIth by Gaius, Thomas Lambert Mears (1882)
"Moreover, he who has forcibly deprived another of his possession, is liable under the Julian law relating to private or public violence; and for private ..."

7. Violence in South Africa: A Variety of Perspectives by Elirea Bornman, René Van Eeden, Marie Wentzel (1998)
"Given that many children present with symptoms several years after exposure to incidents of public violence, this figure is a conservative representation of ..."

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