offense against the public health, safety, comfort, and morals

A crime traditionally viewed as endangering the whole of society.

• The common-law offenses of this type were nuisance, bigamy, adultery, fornication, lewdness, illicit cohabitation, incest, miscegenation, sodomy, bestiality, buggery, abortion, and seduction.


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