 | William Packer Prentice - Police power - 1894 - 578 pages
...Head (Tenn.), 299; Com. v. Lovett, 4 Clark (Pa.), 5; 1 Russ. Cr. 327. Eavesdroppers or such as listen under walls or windows or the eaves of a house to...thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales are a common nuisance and presentable at the common leet or are indictable at the Sessions and punishable... | |
 | John Gardner Hawley, Malcolm McGregor - Criminal law - 1896 - 350 pages
...neighborhood; and "eavesdroppers, being such as listen under walls or windows or the eaves of houses, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales," are nuisances at common law.8 •People vs. White Lead Works, 82 Mich., 471. •Bradley vs. People,... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...statute 12 Geo. III. c. 61, under heavy penalties and forfeitures. 6. Eaves-droppers, or such as listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to...thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales, are a common nuisance, and presentable at the court-leet, or are indictable at the sessions, and punishable... | |
 | Albert William Chaster - Administrative law - 1899 - 332 pages
...obstruction.12 Another instance of common nuisance is eavesdropping, which consists of loitering under walls or eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales. Offenders are apparently indictable at the sessions, and liable to be fined and bound over to good... | |
 | William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall - Criminal law - 1905 - 952 pages
...and indictable at common law.331 (c) Eavesdroppers, defined by Blackstone to be persons who "listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to...thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales," are a public nuisance at common law.333 (d) Exciting public alarm, and disturbing the feeling of public... | |
 | Herbert Newman Mozley, George Crispe Whiteley, Frederick George Neave, Leonard Henry West - Law - 1904 - 368 pages
...that is, without any future da}' appointed for his re-appearance. EAVES-DROPPERS are suoh as listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to...thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales. 4 Steph. Com. ECCLESIA. A church or place set apart for the service of God. Sometimes it means a parsonage.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1086 pages
...for his defense I against injury and violence as for his repose." "Kavesdroppcrs, or such as listen j under walls or windows or the eaves of a house to...thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales," were a nuisance at common law, and indictable, and were required, in the discretion of the court, to... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1108 pages
...well for his defense against injury and violence as for his repose." "Eavesdroppers, or such as listen under walls or windows or the eaves of a house to...thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales," were a nuisance at common law and indictable, and were required, in the discretion of the court, to... | |
 | Henry Taylor Terry - Common law - 1906 - 942 pages
...unreasonably long time, _ Eaves- making great noise in the street at night, or eavesdropping, that is, " listening under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse, and thereby to frame slanderous and Common mischievous tales." A common scold, communis rixatrix, is a... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Great Britain - 1907 - 712 pages
...been punishable at common law, and thus defined : — " Eavesdroppers be such as listen (J by night), under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse, and therefore to frame slanderous and mischievous tales." They are to some extent mixed up with NIGHTWALKERS... | |
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Eaves-droppers, or such as listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales... 
