What is COVENTRY ACT? Definition of COVENTRY ACT in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
The name given to the statute 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 1, which provided for the punishment of assaults with intent to maim or disfigure a person. It was so named from its being occasioned by an assault on Sir John Coventry in the street as was supposed, for some obnoxious words uttered by him in parliament. 4 Bl.Comm. 207; State v. Cody, 18 Or. 506, 23 P. 891.
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