disorderly house

disorderly house
Any place where unlawful and illegal practices are habitually carried on. Marvel v State, 127 Ark 595, 193 SW 259, 5 ALR 1458. A place where acts are performed that tend to corrupt the morals of the community or to promote breaches of the peace, or a place kept for the purpose of public resort for thieves, drunkards, prostitutes or other idle and vicious people, without regard to whether there is any actual disturbance of the public peace and quiet. 24 Am J2d Disord H § 1. See house of ill fame; whorehouse.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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