Idleness

is the refusal or neglect to perform some honest labour, in order to gaina livelihood. The vagrant act 17 G. 2, c. 5, which, with some modification has been adopted in perhaps most of the states, describes idle persons to be those who, not having wherewith to maintain themselves, live idle without employment, and refuse to work for the usual and common wages. These are declared to be vagrants. They are punishable according to the different police regulations with fine and imprisonment. In Pennsylvania vagrancy is punished, on a conviction before a magistrate, with imprisonment for one month.