Vagrancy

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Feudal titles and status

Lord paramount / Territorial lord

Tenant-in-chief

Mesne lord

Lord of the manor / Overlord / Vogt / Liege lord

Esquire / Gentleman / Landed gentry

Franklin / Yeoman / Retinue / Vavasour

Husbandman

Free tenant

Domestic servant

Vagabond

Serf / Villein / Bordar / Cottar

Slave

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Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants (also known as bums, vagabonds, rogues, tramps, or drifters)^[1] usually live in poverty and support themselves by travelling while engaging in begging, scavenging, or petty theft. In Western countries, vagrancy was historically a crime punishable with forced labor, military service, imprisonment, or confinement to dedicated labor houses.

Both vagrant and vagabond ultimately derive from the Latin word vagari, meaning "to wander". The term vagabond is derived from Latin vagabundus. In Middle English, vagabond originally denoted a person without a home or employment.^[2]