Bawdiness - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bawdinessBawdy-house
Bawdy-house. See BROTHEL....
Disorderly houses
Disorderly houses. Houses where persons congreg-ate to the probable disturbance of the peace or other commission of crime. See (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), by which prosecutions by indictment of persons keeping 'bawdy houses, gaming houses, and other disorderly houses' for the Common Law misdemeanour of keeping such houses are encouraged, and see also s. 13 of the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 69), as amended by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 3, and the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922, s. 3, by which the keeping of bawdy houses is punishable on summary conviction, see Siviour v. Neapolitane, (1931) 1 KB 636; (lessee who sub-let not included); and Winter v. Woolfe, (1931) 1 KB 636 (premises kept for allowing illicit intercourse). See BROTHEL; GAMING....
Bawdiness
Obscenity lewdness...
Bawdy
Dirty foul said of clothes...
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