| 1919 - 828 էջ
...Green, 60 111. App. 63. EAVES-DROPPERS. Such as listen under walls, or windows, or the eaves of houses, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales. State v. Pennington, 3 Head (Tenn.) 300. Quoting 4 Bl. Com. 168. ECCHYMOSIS. Grseco-Lat. [from Greek... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1963 - 904 էջ
...States, 335 US 451, with Hester v. United States, 265 US 57. 13 "Eaves-droppers, or such as listen under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to...thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales, are a common nusance and presentable at the court-leet: or are indictable at the sessions, and punishable... | |
| Priscilla M. Regan - 1995 - 340 էջ
...Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws of England ( 1765-69), to "listen under walls or window, or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse,...and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales."2 In colonial New England, although eavesdroppers did threaten the privacy of the home, David... | |
| Stewart Rapalje, Robert L. Lawrence - 1997 - 1450 էջ
...or adjournment. EATIXG-HOUSE, (what is not). 73 NC 252, 254. EAVES -DROPPERS. — Persons who listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to Irame slanderous and mischievous tales. (4 Bl. Com. ItiS.) In English law they are a common nuisance,... | |
| Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1998 - 1126 էջ
...Ewe. L. Fr. "Water. Kilharn,. See Ewe. EAUX. L. Fr. They; them. Eaux meismes ; themselves, ¿elkam. EAVES DROPPING. In English criminal law. The offence...to frame slanderous and mischievous tales. •4 Bl. Corn. 168. It is a misdemeanour at common law, indictable at sessions, and punishable by fine and finding... | |
| 2000 - 168 էջ
...greater latitude to intercept communications. BACKGROUND At common law, "eavesdroppers, or such as listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to...thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales, are a common nuisance and presentable at the court-leet; or are indictable at the sessions, and punishable... | |
| Gina Marie Stevens, Charles Doyle - 2002 - 142 էջ
...of legal materials have been appended. BACKGROUND At common law, "eavesdroppers, or such as listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to...thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales, are a common nuisance and presentable at the court-leet; or are indictable at the sessions, and punishable... | |
| Gustav Adolf Endlich - 2005 - 942 էջ
...were bound to wear a coat and cap half yellow and half brown (d). Eavesdroppers, or such as listen under walls or windows or the eaves of a house,, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to frame slanderousand mischievous tales, are still liable to fine (e). A common scold seems still subject to... | |
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