Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

disorderly house

1. A dwelling where people carry on activities that are a nuisance to the neighborhood. 2. A dwelling where people conduct criminal or immoral activities. * Examples are brothels and drug houses. - Also termed bawdy house; house of prostitution; house of ill fame; lewd house."The keeping of one type of disorderly house - the bawdy house - is punished because it violates the social interest in maintaining proper standards of morality and decency .... As included here a house may be disorderly for other reasons. Any house in wh