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.
Virginia was one of the first states to make laws dealing with indentured servants: 1  Women servants who gave birth to children by their masters could be punished by two years of servitude with the churchwardens after the expiration of their current term.