(UK, historical) An act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1723 in response to a series of raids by two groups of poachers, known as the Blacks. It greatly strengthened the criminal code and specified over 200 capital crimes.

The composite work of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of play-act

simple past tense and past participle of play-act

(civil law, Louisiana, Philippines) Any conduct by a person intended to create, modify, transfer, preserve, or extinguish a right, obligation, or legal relationship.

(US, law) A federal law passed in 1910 prohibiting transportation of women across state lines for immoral purposes.

plural of act curtain

(theater) Synonym of front curtain

(US, law, transitive, intransitive) To invoke the Baker Act, i.e., the involuntary institutionalization and examination of an individual in the state of Florida, or (by extension) elsewhere in the United States.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of Baker Act