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Lascivious Carriage

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In Connecticut. A term including those wanton acts between persons of different sexes, who are not married to each other, that flow from the exercise of lustful passions, and which are not otherwise punished as crimes against chastity and public decency. 2 Swift, pig. 343; 2 Swift, Syst. 331. Lascivious carriage may consist not only in mutual acts of wanton and indecent familiarity between persons of different sexes, but in wanton and indecent actions against the will and without the consent of one of them; as, if a man should forcibly attempt to pull up the clothes of a woman. 5 Day (Conn.) 81.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

“All those wanton acts between persons of different sexes, flowing from the exercise of lustful passions, which are grossly indecent and unchaste, and which are not otherwise punished as crimes against chastity and public decency.” See 5 Day (Conn.), 81.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Connecticut A term including those wanton acts between persons of different sexes that flow from the exercise of lustful passions, and which are not otherwise punished as crimes against chastity and public decency. 2 Swift, Dig. 343. It includes, also, indecent acts by one against the will of another. Fowler v. State, 5 Day (Conn.) 81.

Defined under Lascivious in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In Connecticut. A term including those wanton acts between persons of different sexes that flow trom the exercise of lustful passions, and which are not otherwise punished as crimes against chastity and public decency. 2 Swift, Dig, 343. It includes, also, indecent acts by one against the will of another, 5 Day, 81.