Legal Definition and Related Resources of Vagrant
Meaning of Vagrant
An idle wanderer, a vagabond, a person with no fixed place of residence. At common law, one who goes about from place to place with no visible means of support and while capable of working for support chooses not to and lives without working on the charity of others. See City of Xenia v Barton, (Ohio App.) 128 N. E.2d 134.
Vagrant Alternative Definition
A person who lives idly, without any settled home. A person who refuses to work, or goes about begging. This latter meaning is the common one in statutes punishing vagrancy. See 1 Wils. 331; 5 East, 339; 8 Term R. 26.
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