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n. The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism. The wandering or going about from place to place by an idle person without lawful visible means of support, subsisting on charity, and refraining from working for a living, although able to work. Most laws prohibiting vagrancy have been declared unconstitutionally vague.

Vagrancy is distinguished from disorderly conduct and breaches of the peace, and includes only such cases of vagabondage as are known to the common law; and its statutory definition cannot be enlarged by municipal ordinance. 41 Mich. 299.

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