Vadlet

In old English law

The king's eldest son; hence the valet or knave follows the king and queen in a pack of cards.

Barr. Obs. St. 344.

VAGABOND (Fr. and Eng.; from Lat. vagabundus, from vagari, to wander). A wandering person; one who habitually goes about from place to place; one who has no settled residence or domicile, Les vagabonds sont les gens sans domicile, vagabonds are people without a domicile. Vattel, liv.

1, c. 19, s. 219.

A vagabond is said to be a person who, without traveling in quest of a domicile, has really and truly no certain domicile at all.

Phillim. Dom. 23.

In English and American law, "vagabond" is always used in a bad sense, denoting one who is without a home; a strolling, idle, worthless person. Vagabonds are described in old English statutes as "such as wake on the night and sleep on the day, and haunt customable taverns and ale houses, and routs about; and no man wot from whence they came, nor whither they go."

4 Bl. Comm. 169.

Rogues and vagabonds are classed together by St. 17 Geo. II. c.

5; 5 Geo. IV. c. 83; 1 & 2 Vict. c. 38; 4 Steph. Comm. 309.

In American law, the term "vagrant" is employed in the same sense. See "Vagrant." VAGABUNDUM NUNCUPAMUS EUM qui nullibi domiclllum contraxit habitationls. We call him a vagabond who has acquired nowhere a domicile or residence.

Phillim. Dom. 23, note.