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Brothel

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Brotheler

One who frequents brothels

Brothel

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Keeping a brothel

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Bordel

A brothel a bawdyhouse a house devoted to prostitution

Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 1885 to 1928 (English)

of women under twenty-one, and illicit though un-resisted intercourse with girls between thirteen and sixteen, are made misdemeanours, brothel-keepers are made liable to summary proceedings, and prisoners charged with sexual offences are allowed to give evidence on

Testis lupanaris sufficit ad factum in lupanari

sufficit ad factum in lupanari (Moor, 817), a strumpet is a sufficient witness to a happening in a brothel

In pari delicto potior est conditio possidentis

a debt contracted for wine and suppers supplied to the plaintiff by the defendant for consumption in a brothel kept by her, inasmuch as the plaintiff could not recover without showing the true character of the deposit.

Fornication

Fornication [fr. fornix, a brothel, Lat.], the inter-course of a man with a prostitute; the act of incontinency in single persons; if either

Disorderly houses

sub-let not included); and Winter v. Woolfe, (1931) 1 KB 636 (premises kept for allowing illicit intercourse). See BROTHEL; GAMING.

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