lascivious carriage

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lascivious carriage - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  LASCIVIOUS CARRIAGE, law of Connecticut. An offence, ill defined, created by 
  statute, which enacts that every person who shall be guilty of lascivious 
  carriage and behaviour, and shall be thereof duly convicted, shall be 
  punished by fine, not exceeding ten dollars, or by imprisonment in a common 
  gaol, not exceeding two months, or by fine and imprisonment, or both, at the 
  discretion of the court. This law was passed at a very early period. Though 
  indefinite in its terms, it has received a construction so limiting it, that 
  it may be said to punish those wanton acts between persons of different 
  sexes, who are not married to each other, that flow from the exercise of 
  lustful passions, and which are not otherwise punished as crimes against 
  chastity and public decency. 2 Swift's Dig. 343; 2 Swift's Syst. 331. 
       2. Lascivious carriage may consist not only in mutual acts of wanton 
  and indecent familiarity between persons of different sexes, but in wanton 
  and indecent actions against the will, and without the consent of one of 
  them, as if a man should forcibly attempt to pull up the clothes of a woman. 
  5 Day, 81.