Bawd
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A procurer; one who procures for other persons opportunities for.illicit cohabitation. 4 Mo. 216.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
One whoprocures opportunities for persons of opposite sexes to cohabit in an illicit manner; who may be, while exercising the crime either of adultery or of fornication. See 4 Mo. 216.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
* One who procures opportunities for persons of opposite sexes to cohabit in an illicit manner.^ Bawdy-house. A house of ill-fame; a house kept for the resort and unlawful con- -venience of lewd people of both sexes; a house resorted to for purposes of lewdness and prostitution.' The prosecution having shown that the defendant is the keeper of a house alleged to be a common bawdy-house, testimony as to the general reputation of the house, of the persons who frequent it, and of the defendant, is admissible, as tending to show the real character of the house.' Keeping a bawdy-house is Indictable as a common nuisance at common law." See House, 1, Of ill-fame; Prostitute.