Vagrants - Law Dictionary Search Results
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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