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Noun: Riot Act
  1. (law) a former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them
Noun: riot act
  1. A severe reprimand or warning
    "The manager read him the riot act for being late again"

Derived forms: riot acts

Type of: law, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval

Part of: criminal law

Encyclopedia: Riot Act

Riot act