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Mutiny act

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(Law) an English statute reënacted annually to punish mutiny and desertion.
- Wharton.

See also: Mutiny



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The Mutiny Act of 1689 (9) augmented the Articles of War through the establishment of a standing army and made provision for its peacetime discipline under what has been described as the first permanent code of military law.
Vere held a drumhead court and told his junior officers that for the sake of the service, discipline, and to satisfy the Mutiny Act, they must not consider anything but the fatal blow.
 
 
 
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