Let's take a closer look at an example. A price ceiling is the maximum price that can be charged. If the price is set below the equilibrium price, the price ceiling is said to be effective (or binding).
Criminal vagrancy laws were originally aimed at those wanderers and. beggars physically capable of working.24 However, in 1744 vagrancy. crimes were divided into three classes: idle and disorderly persons, rogues and vagabonds, and incorrigible rogues.
Vagrancy and loitering laws were quickly enacted upon the set-. tling of the American colonies, and remained in force after the colo-. nies were freed from English rule.28 American vagrancy statutes were. 17. Yeamans, supra note 9, at 782.