Night Walkers
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Described in the atatute 5 Edw. III. ec. 14, as persons who sleep by day and walk by night. Persons who prow] about at night, and are of a suspicious appearance and behavior.
Nigrum nunqguam excedere debet rubrum
The black should never go beyond the red, [é. e. the text of a statute should never be read in a sense more comprehensive than the rubric, or title.] Tray. Lat. Max. 373.