black act

Black Act. Hist. An English statute (9 Geo. ch. 22) establishing the death penalty for the unlawful killing or maiming of animals. • The statute was passed in 1722 in the wake of crimes committed by persons with faces blackened or otherwise disguised. The statute was repealed in 1827. The classic study of this law is E.P. Thompson, Whips and Hunters: The Origins of the Black Act (1975).

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译者蒋毅，毕业于亚洲顶尖的高级翻译学院，擅长翻译各种与破产与资产重组相关的法律文件。