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By the [[Statute of Winchester]] of 1285, [[13 Edw. 1]]. St. 2. c. 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 the [[theft]] or [[robbery]] committed, in effect a form of [[collective punishment]]. Those who raised a hue and cry falsely were themselves guilty of a crime.<ref name="googlebooks">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cTILAAAAYAAJ&q=original%20text%20of%20Statute%20of%20Winchester%201285&pg=PA77|title=Statute of Winchester|year=1901|editor=Adams, George Burton|editor2=Henry Morse Stephens|name-list-style=amp|access-date=2011-11-08}}</ref> | By the [[Statute of Winchester]] of 1285, [[13 Edw. 1]]. St. 2. c. 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 between the ages of fifteen and sixty, 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]]''.<ref name="misprision">{{cite journal |last1=Glazebrook |first1=P. R. |title=Misprision of Felony - Shadow or Phantom? |journal=The American Journal of Legal History |date=July 1964 |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=199-200 |doi=10.2307/844169 |access-date=15 June 2025}}</ref> It was moreover provided that "the whole [[hundred (division)|hundred]] ... shall be answerable" for the [[theft]] or [[robbery]] committed, in effect a form of [[collective punishment]]. Those who raised a hue and cry falsely were themselves guilty of a crime.<ref name="googlebooks">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cTILAAAAYAAJ&q=original%20text%20of%20Statute%20of%20Winchester%201285&pg=PA77|title=Statute of Winchester|year=1901|editor=Adams, George Burton|editor2=Henry Morse Stephens|name-list-style=amp|access-date=2011-11-08}}</ref> | ||
The hue and cry was utilized in medieval European towns and villages as a means of community policing.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://academic.oup.com/histres/article-abstract/87/236/179/5603440|title=The hue and cry in medieval English towns|year=2014|last = Sagui|first = Samantha|journal = Historical Research|volume = 87}}</ref> | The hue and cry was utilized in medieval European towns and villages as a means of community policing.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://academic.oup.com/histres/article-abstract/87/236/179/5603440|title=The hue and cry in medieval English towns|year=2014|last = Sagui|first = Samantha|journal = Historical Research|volume = 87}}</ref> | ||
Revision as of 21:44, 15 June 2025
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In common law, a hue and cry is a process by which bystanders are summoned to assist in the apprehension of a criminal who has been witnessed in the act of committing a crime.
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The hue and cry was utilized in medieval European towns and villages as a means of community policing.[3]
The oath of office for constables in the United States state of Tennessee specifically mentions that it is the duty of the constable to sound the hue and cry.[note 1]
Etymology
It is possible that the term is an Anglicization via Anglo-French of the Latin Script error: No such module "Lang"., meaning "a horn and shouting".[4] Other sources indicate that it has always been a somewhat redundant phrase meaning an outcry and cry, though such "redundancy" is a feature of the legal doublet. "Hue" appears to come from the Old French Script error: No such module "Lang"., which means "to shout", and "cry" from Old French Script error: No such module "Lang". ("to cry").[5][6][7][8]
Cultural references
- From the late 18th century until 1839, Hue and Cry was a principal or variant title for the weekly newspaper, containing details of crimes and wanted people, that afterwards became better known as the Police Gazette.
- Hue and Cry is a 1947 British film, which culminates in a call made to local children over the radio to join in the hunt to apprehend the villains.
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