Definitions for: Riot Act


[n] a former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them
[n] a vigorous reprimand; "I read him the riot act"



See Also: criminal law, law, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval

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