In English law. Ev-ery person commits a misdemeanor, punish-able with a flne or Imprisonment, who wrong-fully uses vlolence to or intimidates any other person, or his wlfe or children, wlth a view to compel him to abstain from doing, or to do, any act which he has a legal right to do, or abstain from doing. (St 38 & 39 Vlct c. 86, 8 7.) This enactment is chiefly dl-rected against outrages by trades-unions. Sweet. There are similar statutes in many of the United States. See Payne v. Rail-road Co., 13 Lea (Tenn.) 514, 49 Am. Rep. 666; Embry v. Oom., 79 Ky. 441