night walkers

night walkers
In England, described in the statute 5 Edw. Ill, c. 14, as persons who sleep by day and walk by night. Persons who prowl about at night, and are of a suspicious appearance and behavior. Persons whose habit is to be abroad at night for the purpose of committing some crime or nuisance or mischief or disturbing the peace; not now generally subject to the criminal laws except in respect to misdemeanors actually committed, or in the character of vagrants or suspicious persons. In a narrower or more popular sense, a night walker is a prostitute who walks the streets at night for the purpose of soliciting men for lewd purposes

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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