Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Vagabondage
1 The condition of a vagabond. 2. Vagabonds as a class. - Also termed (in sense 1) vagabondism; (in senses 1 & 2) vagabondry.
vagabond
n. Archaic. A homeless wanderer without means of honest livelihood; VAGRANT. ( This term became archaic over the course of the 20th century, as vagrants won the right not to be forcibly removed from cities. In the 1980s and 1990s, vagabonds came to be known as street people and homeless people, or the homeless. - Also termed vagabundus (vaga-ban-das). "[A]ll idle persons or vagabonds [are] ... divided into three classes, idle and disorderly persons, rogues and vagabonds, and incorrigible rogues; - all these are offenders against the good order, and blemishes in the government, of any kingdom. They are therefore all punished ... rogues and vagabonds with whipping and imprisonment not exceeding six months ...." 4 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 170 (1769).