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.
BLACK's LAW. DICIONARY 942 (6th ed. 1990). Vagrancy is defined as going... from place to place by a. person without visible means of support, who is idle, and who, though able to work for his or her. maintenance, refuses to do so, but lives without labor or on the charity of others.. Id. at 1549.