Eavesdroppers
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In criminal law. Such persons as wait under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to listen to discourses and thereupon to frame mischievous tales.
4 Bl. Comm. 167.