William P. Van Ness and John Woodworth provide the legal definition of "disorderly conduct" based on 1813 New York Law.

Date
1813
Type
Book
Source
William P. Van Ness
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Secondary
Reference

William P. Van Ness and John Woodworth, Laws of the State of New-York, Revised and Passed at the Thirty-Sixth Session of the Legislature, with Marginal Notes and References, Furnished by the Revisors, 2 vols. (Albany: H. C. Southwick, 1813), 1:114, 115-17, 134

Scribe/Publisher
H. C. Southwick
People
John Woodworth, William P. Van Ness
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

[Disorderly conduct/disorderly person is defined as] "pretending . . . to discover where lost goods may be found . . . all jugglers, and all persons pretending to have skill in physiognomy, palmistry, or like crafty science, or pretending to tell fortunes, or to discover where lost goods may be found"

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