Legal Definition and Related Resources of Keeping disorderly house
A common-law offense, a statutory offense in Most American jurisdictions. Keeping a lewd house, a house of ill fame, a house of prostitution, or a house to which people resort for a commission of acts contrary to law and subversive of public morals.
Meaning of Keeping Disorderly House
The common law crime of maintaining of premises upon which activity occurs that either creates a public disturbance or though concealed from the public constitutes a nuisance per se, such as a Gambling house or bawdy house. See Harris v U.S., (D.C.App.)315 A.2d569.
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