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disorderly conduct |
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disorderly conductConduct likely to lead to a disturbance of the public peace or that offends public decency. It has been held to include the use of obscene language in public, fighting in a public place, blocking public ways, and making threats. Statutes against disorderly conduct must identify the specific acts that constitute it. The offense usually carries minor penalties. |
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| ) Then he remembered how he had spent a night in the lockup for disorderly conduct in the street. All these old soldiers commit excesses which were tolerated in the time of the emperor, but which are not suffered now, for the people here do not like soldiers of such disorderly conduct. Creakle, who was prowling about the passage, and handsomely flogged for disorderly conduct in the bedroom. |
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