This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol10 Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wills, Administration", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
The letting of rooms to prostitutes for the purpose of prostitution is keeping a house of ill-fame, though the occupants are mere lodgers.81
A flat boat on which persons live and sleep may become a house of ill-fame.82 Profit or gain in the keeping of a house of ill-fame is not material, unless profit is an element of the offense as defined.83
 
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