Legal Definition and Related Resources of Disorderly House
Meaning of Disorderly House
A house where persons resort for criminal or immoral purposes, a house of ill-fame, a bawdy house.
Disorderly House Alternative Definition
In criminal law. A house the inmates of which behave so badly as to become a nuisance to the neighborhood. One kept in such a way as to disturb or scandalize the public generally, or the inhabitants of a particular neighborhood, or the passers by. 93 W. C. 608. The term has a wide meaning, and includes bawdy houses, gambling houses, and the like. A place kept for general resort for purposes injurious to the public morals or safety is a “disorderly house,” in the legal sense, though there be no noise or disorder. 48 Ark. 60; 30 N. J. Law, 104; 120 Mass. 356; 83N. Y. 587.
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- disorderly house in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
- disorderly house in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
- A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
English Legal System: Disorderly House
In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Disorderly House : A *brothel or a place staging performances or exhibitions that tend to corrupt or deprave and outrage common decency. It is a misdemeanour at common law to keep a disorderly house.
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