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Disorderly House

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

In criminal law. <A house the inmates of which behave 80 badly as to become anuisance to the neighborhooud. It has a wide meaning, and includes bawdy houses, common gaming houses, and places of a like character.

1 Bish. Crim. Law, § 1106; 2 Cranch, C. C. 673.