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Common prostitute

Common prostitute, includes a woman who offers her body for purposes amounting

Vagrants

Every pedlar wandering abroad, and trading without licence. (4) Every common prostitute wandering in the public streets or public highway, or in

Street offences

in each Act comprise riding or driving furiously, loitering by common prostitute for prostitution, sliding on ice or snow, disturbance by ringing

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Procuration of women

intercourse. If the woman be under twenty-one and not a common prostitute, the offence is a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment for not

Night walkers

morning, 2 Hale, P.C. 90. Also a name for a common prostitute: see s. 54 (11) of the (English) Metropolitan Police Act,

Brothel

habitation of prostitutes. To keep one is an offence at Common Law, the prosecution of which by indictment is specially encouraged … Brothel [fr. bordel, Fr.], a habitation of prostitutes. To keep one is an offence at Common Law, the

Prostitution

or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men common lewdness of a woman … The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men

nuisance

preventing injury, whether a child is a trespasser or invitee. common nuisance : public nuisance in this entry nuisance at law … nuisance regardless of its circumstances or surroundings [a house of prostitution is a nuisance per se] called also nuisance at law

Illegal contract

agreement to do any act forbidden either (1) by the Common Law, such as agreements to commit a crime or tort, … or tort, or as for rent of lodging let for prostitution, Jennings v. Brown, (1842) 9 M&W 496; or for price

Intoxicating liquor

sold, as the case may be. The general licence is commonly called an 'alehouse licence' or a 'public-house licence' the licence … penalties for permitting drunkenness or gaming for harbouring constables or prostitutes, for sale to children under 14 (see CHILDREN), and other

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