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Vagrant

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

A person who lives Idly, without any settled home. A person who refuses to work, or goes about begging. This latter meaning is the common one in statutes punishing vagrancy.

See In re Jordan, 90 Mich. 3, 50 N. W. 1087.

One who came within the statutory definition of a vagrant is such, though he had $40 on his person; Branch v. State, 165 S. W. 605.

See Tramp.