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Rogue

Rogue, a wandering beggar, vagrant, vagabond. As to 'incorrigible rogue,' or 'rogue and vagabond,' see VAGRANT.

Wardmote

disorders, nor permit gaming, etc., that they sell in lawful measures; searches are to be made for beggars, vagrants, and idle persons, etc., who shall be punished.

Prostitute

and a vagabond' by the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1898, amended by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912. See VAGRANTS. As to the sending of children associating with prostitutes to approved schools, etc., see (English) Children Act, 1933,

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House of correction

established in the reign of Elizabeth, were originally designed for the penal confinement (after conviction) of paupers and vagrants refusing to work; but by 5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 38, ss. 3, 4, reciting that great

Glass-men

Glass-men, wandering rogues or vagrants, 1 Jac. 1, c. 7, rep. By 13 Anne, c. 26

Gypsies

under the (English) Witchcraft Act, 1735 (9 Geo. 2, c. 5), but more commonly are prosecuted under the Vagrant Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83), and EOr nomine, any gypsy encamping on a highway by the

Whipping

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

Spiritualism

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

Ribaud

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

Palmistry

palmist liable to conviction as a rogue and vagabond. See R. v. Entwistle, (1899) 1 QB 846, and VAGRANT.

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