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Common prostitute, includes a woman who offers her body for purposes amounting to common lewdness in return for payment, there need not be an act of ordinary sexual intercourse, R. v. De Munck, (1918) 1 KB 635....
Vagrants
Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds.The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83). It has been extended by the Vagrancy Act, 1838, as to re-commitment on failure to prosecute, appeal, and exhibition of obscene prints; by the (English) Vagrant Act Amendment Act, 1873, as to gambling and betting in streets; by the Vagrancy Act, 1898, amended by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 7, as to men living on earnings of prostitution; and by (English) Poor Law Act, 1930, s. 150, as to obtaining relief by falsehood. It points out three classes of persons:-1st, idle and disorderly persons; 2nd, rogues and vagabonds; 3rd, incorrigible rogues.First. Idle and Disorderly Persons.-The following are, under the Vagrancy Act, 1824, s. 3, to be deemed 'idle and disorderly persons,' so that any justice of the peace may commit them (being convicted before him) to the house of correction to hard labou...
Prostitute
Prostitute, 'prostitute' means a female who offers her body for promiscuous sexual intercourse for hire, whether in money or in kind. State of U.P. v Kaushailiya, AIR 1964 SC 416: (1964) 4 SCR 1002.A woman who indiscriminately consorts with men for hire. Solicitation by prostitutes is punishable in towns by the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, s. 28 (in cases where the town is subject to a special Act incorporating that Act); in London by the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, s. 54, and generally by the Vagrancy Act, 1824.A licensed retailer of intoxicating liquor permitting his premises to be the habitual resort of reputed prostitutes, whether their object be prostitution or not, is, if he allows them to remain longer than is necessary for the purpose of obtaining reasonable refreshment, liable to a penalty under the Licensing Act, 1910, s. 76.A man who lives on the earnings of prostitution may be dealt with as a 'rogue and a vagabond' by the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1898, amended...
Prostitution
The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men common lewdness of a woman...
Street offences
Street offences. For list of these, see Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (Chit. Stat., tit. 'Police'), s. 28 (applied among ss. 21-29 to urban districts by s. 171 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875 [38 & 39 Vict. c. 55 (Chit. Stat., tit. 'Public Health')], and s. 54 of the Metropolitan Police Acts of 1839 and 1867 [Chit. Stat., tit. 'Police (Metropolis)']. Thirty kinds of offences are specified in the Act of 1847, and seventeen in the Act of 1839. The offences specified in each Act comprise riding or driving furiously, loitering by common prostitute for prostitution, sliding on ice or snow, disturbance by ringing doorbell, discharging firearms, making bonfires, or setting fire to fireworks, and allowing ferocious dogs to be at large. The Act of 1847 also includes keeping swine, and obstructing footways. The Act of 1839 also includes bill posting on buildings without consent of owner, 'blowing horns or any other noisy instrument for the purpose of calling persons together, or of anno...
Procuration of women
Procuration of women, the providing of women for the purposes of illicit intercourse. If the woman be under twenty-one and not a common prostitute, the offence is a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment for not more than two years under the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, amended by the (English) Criminal Law Amend-ment Act, 1912. Conspiring to procure is a misdemeanour at Common Law; see Reg. v. Mears, (1851) 20 LJMC 59....
prostitute
prostitute : a person who engages in sexual activity indiscriminately esp. for money compare panderer, pimp vt -tut·ed -tut·ing [Latin prostitutus, past participle of prostituere, from pro- before + statuere to cause to stand, place] : to offer as a prostitute ...
Causing or encouraging prostitution
Causing or encouraging prostitution, where a girl has become a prostitute, or has had unlawful sexual intercourse, or has been indecently assaulted, a person is deemed to have caused or encouraged it, if he knowingly allowed her to consort with, or to enter or person of known immoral character, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 11(1), para 388, p. 299....
Prostitution
Prostitution, the word 'prostitution' mean an act of promiscuous sexual intercourse for hire or offer or agreement to perform an act of sexual intercourse or any unlawful sexual act for hire, Gaurav Jain v. Union of India, AIR 1997 SC 3021 (3033): (1997) 8 SCC 114. [Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, s. 2(f)]...
Night walkers
Night walkers, vagrants, pilferers, disturbers of the peace. They may be arrested by the police, and committed to custody till the morning, 2 Hale, P.C. 90. Also a name for a common prostitute: see s. 54 (11) of the (English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Police (Metropolis).'...
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