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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58166</law_id><section_number>18.2-42</section_number><catch_line>Assault or battery by mob</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-46.1</reference><reference>19.2-392.02</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Crimes Against the Person</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Crimes by Mobs</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any and every person composing a mob which shall commit a simple <span class="dictionary">assault</span> or <span class="dictionary">battery</span> shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-31; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
