I fought the law and the law won

I was looking something up in my legal dictionary the other day and came across the following which made me smile:

I looked up the Vagrancy Act 1824 and apparently courts have the power to “to detain and keep to hard labour and punish by whipping rogues and vagabonds and incorrigible rogues”.

I think most of my ex-boyfriends fall into the incorrigible rogue category.