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Domicile

Domicile, the place where a person has his home.By the term 'domicile,' in its ordinary acceptation, is meant the place where a person lives or has his home. In this sense the place where a person has his actual residence, inhabitancy, or commorancy, is sometimes called his domicile. In a strict and legal sense, that is properly the domicile of a person where he has his true fixed permanent home and principal establishment, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning (animus revertendi).Two things, then, must concur to constitute domicile: first, residence; and secondly, the intention of making it the home of the party. There must be the fact and intent; for, as Pothier has truly observed, a person cannot establish a domicile in a place except it be animo et facto.From these considerations and rules the general conclusion may be deduced, that domicile is of three sorts: domicile by birth, domicile by choice, and domicile by operation of law. The first is the ...

Whipping

Whipping, a punishment not authorized in modern times except under a statutory enactment [(English) Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914]. No person can be whipped more than once for the same offence (ibid., s. 36). Numerous Acts provide for the whipping of boys under 16: adult males may be whipped, e.g., under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, when convicted on indictment under the Vagrancy Act, 1898, for the second time, or when convicted of certain offences against women under s. 2 of the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885; and also for robbery with violence. See VAGRANT; GARROTTING.A method of corporal punishment formerly used in England and a few American States, consisting of inflicting long welts on the skin, esp. with a whip, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1590.The punishment was abolished for females by 1 Geo. 4, c. 57. As to the power of justices to order whipping of a male child (7-14), see Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 49), s. 10, a...

Spiritualism

Spiritualism, the pretending to hold communication with spirits. The pretender may be convicted as a rogue and a vagabond and imprisoned for three months; and upon a second conviction he may be whipped, Monck v. Hilton, (1877) 2 Ex D 268. See Vagrancy Act, 1824, s. 4, and VAGRANT. Large gifts byan aged widow to a so-called 'Spiritual Medium' were set aside on the ground of undue influence in Lyon v. Home, (1868) LR 6 Eq 655....

Ribaud

Ribaud, a rogue, vagrant, whoremonger; a person given to all manner of wickedness...

Palmistry

Palmistry, the practice of telling the character, and assuming to foretell the future, by inspection of the hands. Pretending to tell fortunes or deceiving 'by palmistry or otherwise' renders the palmist liable to conviction as a rogue and vagabond. See R. v. Entwistle, (1899) 1 QB 846, and VAGRANT....

Motibilis

Motibilis, one that may be removed or displaced; also, a vagrant, Fleta, 1. 5, c. vi...

Idle and disorderly person

Idle and disorderly person. unsettled, tramp see VAGRANT....

Gypsies

Gypsies. The first of the laws against gypsies, 22 Hen. 8, c. 10, describes this people, who were then new-comers in this country, as 'outlandish persons calling themselves Egyptians, using no craft or feat or merchandise, who have come into this realm and go from shire to shire and place to place in great company, and use great, subtle, and crafty means to deceive the people, bearing them in hand, that they by palmistry could tell men's and women's fortunes; and so many times by craft and subtilty have deceived the people of their money, and also have committeed many heinous felonies and robberies.' It was enacted that if any such persons came within the realm, they should forfeit all their goods and chattels, and should leave the kingdom within fifteen days after command so to do, upon pain of imprisonment, 4 Reeves, c. xxx., 420.Both this Act, and the still more severe 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 4, have been repealed, as Acts not in use, by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64. Fortune-tellers are, however, p...

Fortune-tellers

Fortune-tellers, persons pretending or professing to tell fortunes are punishable as rogues and vagabonds under the Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83), s. 4. See, further, GYPSIES; PALMISTRY; and VAGRANT....

Rogue

A vagrant an idle sturdy beggar a vagabond a tramp...

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