Let's take a closer look at an example. A price ceiling is the maximum price that can be charged. If the price is set below the equilibrium price, the price ceiling is said to be effective (or binding).
Criminal vagrancy laws were originally aimed at those wanderers and. beggars physically capable of working.24 However, in 1744 vagrancy. crimes were divided into three classes: idle and disorderly persons, rogues and vagabonds, and incorrigible rogues.
The Oppian Law a sumptuary law that was passed during the Second Punic war after the Roman defeat at Cannae. It targeted rich women and provided that they could not own mo â¦ re than a half ounce of gold and worse (at least in the women's eyes) that they could not display their wealth by wearing elaborate clothing or jewellery or to ride in an animal-drawn vehicle.