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The term "vigilante" was not yet in use, and the acitivists called themselves "regulators." The poor farmers bitterly resented the overpaid corrupt local officials appointed by a distant elite, By 1768 the decentralized movement was highly popular in the backcountry. When two local leaders were arrested, 700 Regulators turned out to free them.
Ius civile vigilantibus scriptum est is a Latin legal phrase that translates to "civil law is written for the vigilant". It can be traced back to the Roman jurist Quintus Cervidius Scaevola (2nd century AD) and is to this day referred to in different legal systems and contexts.
The "Bald Knobbers", an 1880s vigilante group from Missouri – as portrayed in the 1919 film The Shepherd of the HillsVigilantism (/ v ɪ dʒ ɪ ˈ l æ n t ɪ z əm /) is the act of preventing, investigating, and punishing perceived offenses and crimes without legal authority.
Internet vigilantism is the act of carrying out vigilante activities through the Internet.The term encompasses vigilantism against alleged scams, crimes, and non-Internet-related behavior.
always vigilant: Motto of several institutions including the Civil Air Patrol of the United States Air Force, the city of San Diego, California semper vigilo: always vigilant: Motto of the Scottish Police Forces, Scotland Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR) The Senate and the People of Rome: The official name of the Roman Republic.
In the end, cardholders can serve as a line of defense against repeated credit card fraud by staying vigilant against card skimming, phishing and malware attacks, as well as compromised merchants ...
Parents, he said, should also be vigilant about the type and amount of media they consume in front of their children — as some of his clients realized during the fires, when their own obsessive ...
Vigilance decrement is defined as "deterioration in the ability to remain vigilant for critical signals with time, as indicated by a decline in the rate of the correct detection of signals". [4] Vigilance decrement is most commonly associated with monitoring to detect a weak target signal.