Vagrancy Act information

Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants (also known as bums, vagabonds, rogues, tramps, or drifters)...

The Vagrancy Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 83) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that makes it an offence to sleep rough or beg in England and Wales...

Vagrancy Act may refer to: Vagabonds and Beggars Act 1494, Act of the Parliament of England Vagabonds Act 1530, Act of the Parliament of England Vagabonds...

The Anti-Vagrancy Act, also known as the Greaser Act, was enacted in 1855 in California, by legalizing the arrest of those perceived as violating its...

The Vagrancy Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 39) was a piece of legislation in England and Wales that criminalised men who lived off the earnings of prostitution...

The Vagrancy Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 38) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It amended the Vagrancy Act 1824 to provide that any person...

Crimes Act 1871, and 54 & 55 Vict. c.69, the Penal Servitude Act 1891, which introduced the phrase "loitering with intent". The Vagrancy Act 1898 was...

practices". Prior to this Act, the "exposure for sale" of "obscene books and prints" had been made illegal by the Vagrancy Act 1824. but the publication...

arrest people on suspicion of them being in breach of section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824. According to a 2018 study in the British Journal of Criminology...

under the Vagrancy Act 1824, one purpose of which was to reinforce the 1735 Act. In September 1943, Helen Duncan was jailed under the Witchcraft Act 1735 on...

prosecuted under section 28 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847 or section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824. The latter contained a provision for the prosecution...

1716 and 1725, and the Act of Proscription 1746. The first British firearm controls were introduced as part of the Vagrancy Act 1824, which was set up...

The act 7 Ric. 2. c. 5 (1383), sometimes called the Beggars Act 1383, the Vagrancy Act, or the Vagabonds Act 1383, was an act of the Parliament of England...

section four of the Vagrancy Act 1824 to ensure that it is still enforced with the acts. There were five prosecutions under this Act between 1980 and 1995...

his exhibitionism. In the United Kingdom, the 4th draft of the revised Vagrancy Act 1824 included an additional clause "or openly and indecently exposing...

The Vagabonds Act 1547 (1 Edw. 6. c. 3), also known as the Vagrancy Act 1547, was a statute passed in England by King Edward VI and his Lord Protector...

issues regarding vagrancy and people who called themselves "Egyptians". The Egyptians Act 1554 came shortly after the Vagabonds Act 1547 and is still...

the Act was finally repealed by the Aborigines Act 1969. It repealed the Supply of Liquors to Aborigines Prevention Act 1867, amended the Vagrancy Act 1902...

Britain into surrender, but again was unsuccessful. Canada Corn Act 1843 Vagrancy Act 1824 - catch-all legislation that criminalised destitution in the...

Ireland. This was an act of the Irish Parliament which copied the Buggery Act 1534 as passed by the English parliament. This act made the death penalty...

Police Offences Amendment Act 1908, and the Prisoners Detention Act. Street prostitution was controlled by the Vagrancy Act 1902 (sec. 4[1] [c]) enabling...

powers that were 'piecemeal'. Such powers included those within The Vagrancy Act 1824, which developed 'sus' laws. These powers allowed police to stop...

begging or sleeping in the open and prosecuted for an offence under the Vagrancy Act 1824. A typical early 19th-century casual ward was a single large room...

The Vagabonds Act 1597 (39 Eliz. 1. c. 4) was an Act of the Parliament of England, which aimed to address concerns of vagrancy. The ninth Elizabethan parliament...

until the 1956 Act was amended by the Sexual Offences Act 1985. The Act abolished the offence of "loitering with intent" under the Vagrancy Act 1824. Section...

Academy. The Littleport riots of 1816 influenced the passage of the Vagrancy Act 1824. With an Old English name of Litelport, the village was worth 17...

been a factor in the government passing the Vagrancy Act 1824 and subsequently the Metropolitan Police Act 1829. In 1815, the government increased taxation...

Victoria Penal Servitude Act 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 69), Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom under Queen Victoria Vagrancy Act (disambiguation) This...