Posted: 6/7/2011 9:02:15 AM EDT
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Quoted:
"Did keep a disorderly house, to wit: [address], by keeping the house as a place of common resort of people there to consort together, thus affording opportunities for and temptations to the indulgence of their bad habits and passions, to the evil example and scandal of the neighborhood" Still on the books as a charge, and a very nice way to say someone is running a whorehouse.  I thought it was a drug house. 
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They weren't called "whorehouses"; they were called "resorts" or "sporting houses" and the men who patronized them were called "sports".
The law you quoted seems perfectly clear to me, but then I'm one of the wierd ones who really likes Elizabethian / 17th & 18th century English. 
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