(UK, historical) An act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1723 in response to a series of raids by two groups of poachers, known as the Blacks.
(UK, historical) An act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1723 in response to a series of raids by two groups of poachers, known as the Blacks. It greatly strengthened the criminal code and specified over 200 capital crimes.
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(UK, legal, historical, colloquial) Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, which made "gross indecency" a crime in the United Kingdom, and was used broadly to prosecute male homosexuals.
(US) Any one of a series of laws, passed before the American Civil War, sharply discriminating against free blacks who wished to emigrate to a northern state and become citizens there.
A piece of old London thieves' cant meaning 'look out' or 'beware' — part of the coded vocabulary that criminals and street hustlers used to tip each other off about danger, typically the approach of police or other threats. Like much Victorian-era thieves' slang, it borrowed place names and ordinary words and repurposed them as warning signals. Today it reads as a historical curiosity, a window into the rich underground argot of 19th-century London.
(India, historical, derogatory) Act XI., 1836, of the Indian Legislature, which placed European subjects on a level with natives as to their subjection in civil causes to the British East India Company's courts, including those under native judges.
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(obsolete, or, historical) One who dyes or colours things black.