terro

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terro - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  TERROR. That state of the mind which arises from the event or phenomenon 
  that may serve as a prognostic of some catastrophe affright from apparent 
  danger. 
       2. One of the constituents of the offence of riot is that the acts of 
  the persons engaged in it should be to the terror of the people, as a show 
  of arms, threatening speeches, or turbulent gestures; but it is not 
  requisite, in order to constitute this crime, that personal violence should 
  be committed. 3 Camp. R. 369; 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 65, s. 5; 4 C. & P. 373. S. 
  C. 19 E. C. L. R. 425 4 C. & P. 538; S. C. 19 E. C. L. R. 616. Vide Rolle's 
  R. 109; Dalt. Just. c. 186; 19 Vin. Ab. Riots, A 8. 
       3. To constitute a forcible entry, 1 Russ. Cr. 287, the act must be 
  accompanied with circumstances of violence or terror; and in order to make 
  the crime of robbery, there must be violence or putting in fear, but both 
  these circumstances need not concur. 4 Binn. R. 379. Vide Riot; Robbery; 
  Putting in fear.