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vagrancy

vay gruhn see

  • n  the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood

  • Yet when a person is booked for vagrancy, it is, in effect, up to him to prove his innocence, and for the drunks and down-and-outers who suffer the great majority of vagrancy .
  • The Supreme Court overturns the state's vagrancy law Edward Lawson, 37, a bachelor and the head of his own consulting and entrepreneurial firm in San Francisco, liked to.
  • The way the tide of the law is flowing, it is likely that local vagrancy and similar statutes will soon fall under the disapproving glare of the courts.
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  • Rob Hulls in The Age
    It is almost 200 years old and is steeped in the language and attitudes of Dickensian England,Mr Hulls said. "Under the Vagrancy Act it is an offence to profess or pretend to tell fortunes or practise witchcraft. But the times have long...

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