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Breach of the peace   /britʃ əv ðə pis/   Listen
Breach of the peace

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: disorderly behavior, disorderly conduct, disturbance of the peace.






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"Breach of the peace" Quotes from Famous Books



... whom you are engaged to prosecute is very great, and may be suspected to be too common. In our law it would be a breach of the peace, and a misdemeanour: that is, a kind of indefinite crime, not capital, but punishable at the discretion of the Court. You cannot want matter: all that needs to be said ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill



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