vagrance

Noun

 * 1)  Vagrancy, wandering.
 * 2) * 1601, John Legat, printer to the University of Cambridge (publisher), Ease for Overseers of the Poore: Abstracted from the Statutes
 * but as they have wavering and straying mindes, so they will have wandering and unstaid bodies, which will sooner be disposed to vagrance than activitie, to idlenesse than to worke.
 * 1) * 1913, (Frederic Bancroft editor), Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz
 * Here vagrance laws were enacted calculated to tie the colored laborer to his late owner by the most arbitrary legal obligations.
 * Here vagrance laws were enacted calculated to tie the colored laborer to his late owner by the most arbitrary legal obligations.