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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...
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)]...
prostitution
prostitution : the act or practice of engaging in sexual activity indiscriminately esp. for money ;also : the crime of engaging in such activity ...
Prostitution
The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men common lewdness of a woman...
Common prostitute
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....
Brothel
Brothel [fr. bordel, Fr.], a habitation of prostitutes. To keep one is an offence at Common Law, the prosecution of which by indictment is specially encouraged by the (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), s. 5, and the prosecution of which by summary proceedings before justices of the peace is allowed by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 69). Further provision for the suppression of brothels is made by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 1912 and 1922. For a person licensed to sell intoxicating liquor to permit his premises to be a brothel, the penalty is up to 20l. fine, forfeiture of license, and perpetual disqualification for holding another, by s. 15 of the (English) Licensing Act, 1872. A woman who keeps a house for the purpose of prostitution with herself alone cannot be convicted of keeping a brothel, Singleton v. Ellison, (1895) 1 QB 607.Includes any house, room, [conveyance] or place or any portion of any house, room [c...
Keeping a brothel
Keeping a brothel, It may be true that a place used once for the purpose of prostitution may not be a brothel, but it is a question of fact as to what conclusion should be drawn about the use of a place about which a person goes and freely asks for girls, where the person is shown girls to select from and where he does engage a girl for the purpose of prostitution. The conclusion to be derived from these circumstances about the place and the person 'keeping it' can be nothing else than that the place was being used as a brothel and the person in charge was so keeping it. It is not necessary that there should be evidence of repeated visits by persons to the place for the purpose of prostitution. A single instance coupled with the surrounding circumstances is sufficient to establish both that the place was being used as a brothel and that the person alleged was so keeping it, Krishnamurthy v. Public Prosecutor, (1967) 1 SCR 586: AIR 1967 SC 567 (568). [Suppression of Immoral Traffic in W...
Solicitation
Solicitation. It is an indictable offence to solicit and incite another to commit a felony, although no felony be in fact committed, R. v. Higgins (1801) 2 East, 5.As to arrest by a constable, on view, of a prostitute 'loitering in any thorough fare or public place for the purpose of prostitution or solicitation to the annoyance of the inhabitants or passengers,' see (English) Metropolitan Police Act 1839, s. 54, and s. 28 of the Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, where this street offence is described as 'loitering and importuning passengers for the purpose of prostitution.'...
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