However, the Court has identified a constitutional difficulty with many modern vagrancy laws.
He also hears for the first time that vagrancy laws have been toughened up, just to keep the migrants on the move.
Many petty criminals were sentenced to the workhouse by way of the vagrancy laws even before these efforts.
A series of high court rulings from the 1950's through the 1970's invalidated the old vagrancy laws.
He abolished vagrancy laws that gave the police the authority to round up migrants at will.
What action there was against prostitution was mainly to keep it out of the public eye, using vagrancy laws.
His death caused nationwide outrage and led to the abolition of vagrancy laws.
The need to crash during the day poses problems of its own, given vagrancy laws.
Sleeping horizontally in public seemed to be against the city's vagrancy laws.