Sentence Examples

  • In Belgium the institutions for the repression of vagrancy are maintained by the state under a law of November 27th, 1891.
  • The pious compilers of his "office" evidently thought it necessary to defend him against the charge of mere vagrancy.
  • C. 5, which was re-enacted by the Vagrancy Act 1824.
  • The causes for a divorce are adultery, incompetency, conviction of a felony and sentence to imprisonment therefor after marriage, conviction of a felony or infamous crime before marriage provided it was unknown to the other party, habitual drunkenness, extreme cruelty, intolerable indignities, neglect of the husband to provide the common necessaries of life, vagrancy of the husband and pregnancy of the wife before marriage by another man than her husband and without his knowledge.
  • Action in this case was optional, but after an interval of fifteen years the Police Act of 1856 made the rule compulsory, it being found that an efficient police force throughout England and Wales was necessary for the more effectual prevention and detection of crime, the suppression of vagrancy and the maintenance of good order.
 
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