disturbance of a public meeting

disturbance of a public meeting. The unlawful interference with the proceedings of a public assembly. [Cases: Disturbance of Public Assemblage

1. C.J.S. Disturbance of Public Meetings § 3.]

“Generally speaking, any conduct which, being contrary to the usages of the particular sort of meeting and class of persons assembled, interferes with its due progress and services, or is annoying to the congregation in whole or in part, is a disturbance; and a meeting may be said to be ‘disturbed’ when it is agitated, aroused from a state of repose, molested, interrupted, hindered, perplexed, disquieted, or diverted from the object of the assembly.” 27 C.J.S. Disturbance of Public Meetings § 1, at 817 (1959).


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