Idleness

See Vaqkanot. rP. Implies a condition precedent, unless controlled by other words.8 A word of condition, or of conditional limitation.* To sell property " if it be thought best " means, if in the course of the administration of the estate it should be found necessary or advisable to take that course. 1° See Best. " If," m a judge's charge, may not save it from assuming the existence of a fact." See Condition; Provided; When. -IFF. See Plaintiff; Sheriff. > Third Nat. Bank of St. Paul v. Stillwater Gas Co., 36 Minn. 78 (1886), cases: 26 Am. Law Reg. 253 (1887); ib. 256-60, cases; Fletcher v. Sharpe, 108 Ind. 279 (1886), cases: 26 Am. Law Eeg. 71; ib. 74-^2 (1887), cases; 25 Cent. Law J. 315-21 (1887), cases; 2 Harv. Law Eev. 28-39 (1888), cases. 2 2B1. Com. 405. ' Owings' Case, 1 Bland, Ch. 386 (Md., 1828). * Stewart!). Lispenard, 26 Wend. 314 (N. T., 1841); 1 Eedf. Wills, 59, 61,64. »1B1. Com. 303; 88111.502. • [Crosswell v. People, 13 Mich. 435 (1865), Cooley, J.; Chitty, Med. Jur. ' 1 Bl. Com. 30.3-4. See 4 Johns. Ch. 441; 3 Ired. Ch. 535; Eay, Med. Jur. Ins. 86, 743; 1 Whart. & St. Med. J. § 1; Taylor, Med. J. 789-91. 8Crabbe, E. P. §2152. » Sutton V. West, 77 N. C. 431 (1877); Owen v. Field, 102 Mass. 105 (1869); 18 N. J. L. 36.

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.