lewd and lascivious cohabitation
lewd and lascivious cohabitation. See illicit cohabitation under COHABITATION.
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lewd and lascivious behaviour
lewd and lascivious behaviour 淫荡下流的行为 (→lewd and lascivious conduct)
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disorderly house
disorderly house (1)妨害相邻权的住户 (2)扰乱社会治安的场所 指任何经常发生违反社会治安、损害公共道德行为的场所。其含义很广，包括妓院〔bawdy house〕、赌场〔gambling house〕等类似性质的场所。在普通法上，经营该类场所构成轻罪。根据现行法，在这类场所中从事的行为一般属于违反社会治安的行为，其中一些特定行为往往以犯罪论处。 (→house of ill fame; whorehouse; house of prostitution; lewd house)
obscenity
obscenity n. (1)淫秽；下流；可憎 指具有破坏善良风俗，旨在使那些易受不道德性关系影响的人，以及能够得到具有上述内容出版物的人淫荡、堕落的一种性质。因此任何物品的淫秽性不在于它本身的确定的特性，而在于它对读者或者观众思想的影响。判断某一物品是否淫秽的标准是不确定的，要从整体上考虑它的主要目的是否在于淫欲的兴趣，并且实质上是否超出了通常所需要的表述限度。判断的标准应以理智的成年人为参照，但如果综合该物品本身的特性、传播的范围来看适用于儿童或其他特殊敏质人的除外。 (2)淫秽的语言(或行为、动作)；可憎的事(→censor; censorship; lewd; obscene; profanity)
disorderly house
disorderly house. 1. A dwelling where people carry on activities that are a nuisance to the neighborhood. [Cases: Disorderly House 1. C.J.S. Disorderly Houses § 2.] 2. A dwelling where people conduct criminal or immoral activities. • Examples are brothels and drug houses. — Also termed (more narrowly) bawdy house; house of prostitution; house of
licentious
licentious (lI-sen-sh[schwa]s), adj. Lacking or ignoring moral or legal restraint, esp. in sexual activity; lewd; lascivious. — licentiousness, n.
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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debauch
debauch (di-bawch), vb. 1. Archaic. To draw (a person) away from duty; to lead (a person) astray. 2. To corrupt (a person) with lewdness; to seduce (someone). 3. To mar or spoil (a person or thing).