"Eavesdropping" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
In English criminal law. The ofTense of listening under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales. 4 Bl. Comm. 168. It is a misdemeanor at common law, indictable at sessions, and punish* able by fine and finding sureties for good be-havior. Id.; Stepb. Crim. Law, 109. See State v. Pennington, 3 Head (Tenn.) 300, 75 Am. Dec. 771; Com. v. Lovett, 4 Clark (Pa.) 5; Selden v. State, 74 wis. 271, 42 N. W. 218, 17 Am. St Rep. 144
The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and
other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly
listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is
indictable at common law.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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