What is mendicancy law?

What is mendicancy law?

Presidential Decree No. 1563 prohibits the public from extending assistance, particularly monetary, to mendicants in an aim to prevent the exploitation of infants and children through mendicancy and promote the rehabilitation of minors found begging in the streets.

What is mendicancy squad?

Noun. mendicancy squad (plural mendicancy squads) (US) police who arrested beggars and homeless people It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the look-out for the mendicancy squad. – The Gift of the Magi – "O.

What does subsided mean in medical terms?

subsidence. (sŭb-sīd′ĕns) [L. subsidere, to sink down] The gradual disappearance of symptoms or manifestations of a disease. Medical Dictionary, © 2009 Farlex and Partners.

What Dawn means?

noun. the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley. the beginning or rise of anything; advent: the dawn of civilization.