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TUMULTUOUS RISINGS (IRELAND) ACT 1831

TUMULTUOUS RISINGS (IRELAND) ACT 1831 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Whiteboy Act (Ireland), 1775.{1}
[15th October 1831]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1890

S.1 rep. by SLR 1874

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] ....

TUMULTUOUS RISINGS (IRELAND) ACT 1831 - SECT 3
Persons printing or sending inflammatory or threatening notices or
letters, &c., shall be liable to imprisonment.

3. If any person or persons shall knowingly print, write, post,
publish, circulate, send, or deliver, or cause or procure to be
printed, written, posted, published, circulated, sent, or delivered,
any notice, letter, or message exciting or tending to excite any
riot, tumultuous, or unlawful meeting or assembly, or unlawful
combination or confederacy, or threatening any violence, injury, or
damage, upon any condition or in any event, or otherwise, to the
person, or property, real or personal, of any person whatever, or
demanding any money, arms, weapons or weapon, ammunition or other
matter or thing whatsoever, or directing or requiring any person to
do or not to do any act, or to quit the service or employment of
any person, or to set or to give out any land, every person so
offending shall be liable to be ... imprisoned, ... for any term
not exceeding three years ....

Ss.47 rep. by 1914 c.58 s.44(2) sch.4; 1953 c.14 (NI) s.1(2); 1953
c.18 (NI) s.48 sch.5; 1968 c.28 (NI) s.14 sch.3

TUMULTUOUS RISINGS (IRELAND) ACT 1831 - SECT 8
Criminal courts in Ireland may fine witnesses who do not attend
when summoned.

8. ... It shall and may be lawful for every court in Ireland
having by law jurisdiction over criminal offences, upon proof being
made of the service, either personally or at the residence of the
person or persons required to attend, of any summons to appear and
give evidence in such court touching any offence, to impose upon
the person so served, in case of his or her disobeying such
summons, such fine or fines as the court shall in its discretion
think proper, and to direct that the same shall be levied and
raised in manner herein-after mentioned.

TUMULTUOUS RISINGS (IRELAND) ACT 1831 - SECT 9
Court may order amount of estreated recognizances and fines imposed
on jurors and witnesses to be forthwith levied.

9. It shall and may be lawful to and for [any judge of the Crown
Court] immediately on any recognizance being estreated, or any juror
or witness fined, to forthwith order the [appropriate officer of
that court] to levy the amount for which such recognizance shall be
estreated or fine imposed on the body and goods of the person or
persons against whom such warrant shall issue, as is usual in the
recovery of forfeited recognizances; ....

TUMULTUOUS RISINGS (IRELAND) ACT 1831 - SECT 10
Extent of Act.

10. This Act shall extend only to Ireland.