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About|the common law precept| Ealing Studios ' first comedy|Hue and Cry (film)|the Scottish band|Hue and Cry (band)Refimprove|date=December 2009In common law , a hue and cry is a process by which bystanders are summoned to assist in the apprehension of a Crime|criminal who has been witnessed in the act of committing a crime .
By the Statute of Winchester of 1285, 13 Edward I of England|Edw. I cc. 1 and 4, it was provided that anyone, either a constable or a private citizen, who witnessed a crime shall make hue and cry, and that the hue and cry must be kept up against the fleeing criminal from town to town and from county to county, until the felon is apprehended and delivered to the sheriff . All able-bodied men, upon hearing the shouts, were obliged to assist in the pursuit of the criminal, which makes it comparable to the Posse Comitatus (Common Law)|posse comitatus . It was moreover provided that "the whole hundred (division)|hundred … shall be answerable" for any theft or robbery , in effect a form of collective punishment . Those who raised a hue and cry falsely were themselves guilty of a crime.cite book|url= http://books.google.com/books? id=cTILAAAAYAAJ& lpg=PA76& ots=1acfFeJFAJ& dq=original%20text%20of%20Statute%20of%20Winchester%201285& pg=PA77#v=onepage& q& f=false|title=Statute of Winchester|editor=Adams, George Burton and Henry Morse Stephens|accessdate=2011-11-08
In Oliver Twist , Fagin reads a magazine called the Hue and Cry which was a weekly Police Gazette -type magazine detailing crimes and wanted people.
Etymology
It is possible that it is an Anglicization via Anglo-French of the Latin , hutesium et clamor, meaning "a horn and shouting".cite web|url= http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hue1.htm|title=What does Hue and Cry Mean? |accessdate=2011-11-05 But other sources indicate that it has always been a somewhat redundant phrase meaning an outcry and cry. "Hue" appears to come from the Old French huer which means to shout, and Old French crier which means to cry.cite web|url= http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/24/messages/1077.html|title=Hue and Cry|accessdate=2011-11-05cite web|url= http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hue+and+cry|title=Compiled Definition and Etymology of Hue and Cry|accessdate=2011-11-05Citation | title = American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | editor-last =Soukhanov | editor-first = Anne H. |page= 879 | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Company |place=Boston, MA | year = 1992
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See also
Citizen's arrest
Clameur de haro
AMBER Alert
Nightwalker Statute
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