Begging - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Begging, means:(i) soliciting or receiving alms in a public place or entering into any private premises for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms, whether under any pretence;(ii) exposing or exhibiting with the object of obtaining or extorting alms, any sore, wound, injury, deformity or disease, whether of himself or of any other person or of an animal. [Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (56 of 2000), s. 2 (b)]Begging means-- (i) soliciting or receiving alms in a public place or entering on any private premises for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms, whether under the pretence of singing, dancing, fortune telling, performing tricks or selling articles or otherwise; (ii) exposing or exhibiting with the object of obtaining or extorting alms any sore, wound, injury, deformity or disease, whether himself or of any other person or of an animal; (iii) allowing oneself to be used as an exhibit for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms. [Children...
Begging the question
Begging the question. See PETITIO PRINCIPII....
Beggars
Beggars. Begging in a pubic place is an offence of an 'idle and disorderly person' within the meaning of the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824, s. 3 (5), and endeavouring anywhere to obtain alms by exposure of wounds, an offence of a 'rogue and vagabond' within s. 4 (5) of that Act (see VAGRANT). Procuring a child to beg in a public place is an offence against s. 14 of the (English) Children Act, 1908, and see the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1932 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 4....
importune
importune -tuned -tun·ing vt : to press or urge with troublesome persistence [who solicits, requests, commands, s or intentionally aids another person to engage in conduct which constitutes an offense "General Statutes of Connecticut"] vi : to beg, urge, or press another persistently or troublesomely compare coerce, solicit ...
Beg
A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East a bey...
Beggable
Capable of being begged...
Beggar
One who begs one who asks or entreats earnestly or with humility a petitioner...
Beggary
The act of begging the state of being a beggar mendicancy extreme poverty...
Bey
A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions also in some places a prince or nobleman a beg as the bey of Tunis...
Bribe
A gift begged a present...
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