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DISORDERLY HOUSE

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 313 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DISORDERLY See also:

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

HOUSE , in See also:

law, a house in which the conduct of its inmates is such as to become a public See also:

NUISANCE (through Fr. noisance, nuisance, from Lat. nocere, to hurt)

nuisance, or a house where persons congregate to the probable disturbance of the public See also:

peace or other See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission of See also:

CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime. In See also:

England, by the Disorderly Houses See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1751, the See also:

TERM

term includes See also:

COMMON

common bawdy houses or brothels,' common gaming houses, common betting houses and disorderly places of entertainment. The keeping of such is a See also:

MISDEMEANOUR (from O. Fr. mes- and demener, to conduct oneself ill)

misdemeanour punishable by See also:

FINE

fine or imprisonment, and in the See also:

case of a brothel also punishable on See also:

SUMMARY

summary conviction by the Criminal Law See also:

AMENDMENT (through the O. Fr. amender, to correct, from Lat. mendum, a fault)

Amendment Act 1885; the letting out for gain for indiscriminate See also:

PROSTITUTION (from Lat. prostituere, to expose publicly)

prostitution of a See also:

ROOM

room or rooms in a house will make it as much a brothel in law as if the whole house were let out for the purpose. Where, however, a woman occupies a house or room which is frequented by men for the purpose of committing fornication with her, she cannot be convicted of keeping a disorderly house. See also PROSTITUTION.

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