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HUE AND CRY

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 854 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUE AND CRY , a phrase employed in See also:English See also:law to signify the old See also:common law See also:process of pursuing a criminal with See also:horn and See also:voice. It was the See also:duty of any See also:person aggrieved, or discovering a See also:felony, to raise the hue and cry,' and his neighbours were See also:bound to turn out with him and assist in the See also:discovery of the offender. In the See also:case of a hue and cry, all those joining in the pursuit were justified in arresting the person pursued, even though it turned out that he was See also:innocent. A See also:swift See also:fate awaited any one overtaken ' The word " hue," which is now obsolete except in this phrase and in the " huers ' on the Cornish See also:coast who See also:direct the See also:pilchard-fishing from the cliffs, is generally connected with the Old See also:French verb huer, to cry, shout, especially in See also:war or the See also:chase. It has been suggested that while " cry " represents the See also:sound of the voices of the pursuers, " hue " applies to the sound of horns or other See also:instruments used in the pursuit; and so See also:Blackstone, Comment. iv. xxi. 293 (1809), " an hue and cry, hutesium et clamor, . with horn and voice." " Hue," See also:appearance, See also:colour, is in Old English hiew, hiw, cognate with See also:Swedish hij, complexion, skin, and probably connected with See also:Sanskrit chawi, skin, complexion, beauty. by hue and cry, if he still had about him the signs of his See also:guilt. If he resisted he could be cut down, while, if he submitted to See also:capture, his fate was decided. Although brought before a See also:court, he was not allowed to say anything in self-See also:defence, nor was there any need for See also:accusation, See also:indictment or See also:appeal. Although regulated from See also:time to time by writs and statutes, the process of hue and cry continued to retain its See also:summary method of See also:procedure, and See also:proof was not required of a See also:culprit's guilt, but merely that he had been taken red-handed by hue and cry. The various statutes See also:relating to hue and cry were repealed in 1827 (7 and 8 Geo. IV. c.

27). The Sheriffs See also:

Act 1887, re-enacting 3 Edw. I. c. 9, provides that every person in a See also:county must be ready and apparelled at the command of the See also:sheriff and at the cry of the county to See also:arrest a felon, and in See also:default shall on conviction be liable to a See also:fine. " Hue and cry " has, from its See also:original meaning, come to be applied to a See also:proclamation for the capture of an offender or for the finding of stolen goods, and to an See also:official publication, issued for the See also:information of the authorities interested, in which particulars are given of offenders " wanted," offences committed, &c. For the See also:early See also:history, see See also:Pollock and See also:Maitland, History of English Law, vol. ii. ; W. See also:Stubbs, Select Charters.

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