Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants usually live in poverty and support themselves by travelling...
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Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal (usually a bird) appears well outside its normal range; they are known as vagrants. The...
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Vagrancy Act may refer to: Vagabonds and Beggars Act 1494, Act of the Parliament of England Vagabonds Act 1530, Act of the Parliament of England Vagabonds...
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The Vagrancy Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares that are four years old and older run over a distance of 6+1⁄2...
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The Vagrancy Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 83) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that makes it an offence to sleep rough or beg in England and Wales...
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by the Black Codes. The defining feature of the Black Codes was broad vagrancy law, which allowed local authorities to arrest freedpeople for minor infractions...
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Vagrant (disambiguation) (redirect from Vagrancy (disambiguation))
Look up vagrant or vagrancy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A vagrant is a person who lives without a home or regular employment and wanders from place...
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The Vagrancy Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 39) was a piece of legislation in England and Wales that criminalised men who lived off the earnings of prostitution...
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Loitering (category Vagrancy laws)
"loitering with intent". The Vagrancy Act 1898 was passed, then both were repealed by the Sexual Offences Act 2003. The Vagrancy Act 1824 permits in section...
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society such as burglary, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, and vagrancy. He was also arrested after being involved in bar fights, and for drunkenness...
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Greaser Act (category Vagrancy laws)
The Anti-Vagrancy Act, also known as the Greaser Act, was enacted in 1855 in California, by legalizing the arrest of those perceived as violating its anti-vagrancy...
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Vagrancy was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Vagrancy was a bay filly born in 1939 out of Valkyr by Man o' War. She raced for Belair...
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Pink-footed goose (section Vagrancy)
The pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and recently Novaya Zemlya. It is migratory...
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What is Called Vagrancy (French: Ce que l'on appelle le vagabondage) is an early oil on canvas painting by Belgian painter Alfred Stevens. This painting...
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Tracy Walker (serial killer) (section Vagrancy)
Tracy Walker (born 1964) is an American serial killer who murdered three homeless people in Rancho Dominguez, California from 2020 to 2021. Having previously...
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Great black hawk (section Vagrancy)
The great black hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles, hawks, and Old World vultures...
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Red-necked nightjar (section Vagrancy)
The red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis) is the largest of the nightjars occurring in Europe. It breeds in Iberia and North Africa, and winters...
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Sandhill crane (section Vagrancy)
Antigone canadensis USFWS Recording Problems playing this file? See media help. The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of...
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Ring-billed gull (section Vagrancy)
The ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis) is a medium-sized gull. The genus name is from Latin Larus which appears to have referred to a gull or other...
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Red-eyed vireo (section Vagrancy)
The red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus) is a small American songbird. It is somewhat warbler-like but not closely related to the New World warblers (Parulidae)...
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Snow goose (section Vagrancy)
The snow goose (Anser caerulescens) is a species of goose native to North America. Both white and dark morphs exist, the latter often known as blue goose...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A skid row is a part of a city known for high vagrancy and poor maintenance. Skid Row may also refer to: Skid Row (Irish band)...
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Black-browed albatross (section Vagrancy)
The black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris), also known as the black-browed mollymawk, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae;...
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Since money had not changed hands, the charge against Earp was reduced to vagrancy and he was released on $500 bail. The Earps bought a small cottage in Vidal...
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Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville (category Vagrancy laws)
(1972), was a United States Supreme Court case resulting in a Jacksonville vagrancy ordinance being declared unconstitutionally vague. The case was argued...
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Harp seal (section Migration and vagrancy)
The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also known as Saddleback Seal or Greenland Seal, is a species of earless seal, or true seal, native to the northernmost...
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Asian brown flycatcher (section Vagrancy)
The Asian brown flycatcher (Muscicapa dauurica) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The word Muscicapa comes from the Latin...
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Oriental pratincole (section Vagrancy)
The oriental pratincole (Glareola maldivarum), also known as the grasshopper-bird or swallow-plover, is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae....
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Homelessness in the United States (section Vagrancy)
In the United States, the number of homeless people on a given night in January 2023 was more than 650,000 according to the Department of Housing and Urban...
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Northern waterthrush (section Vagrancy)
The northern waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) is a species of ground-feeding migratory New World warbler of the genus Parkesia. It breeds in the northern...
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