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 Elizabethan Sumptuary Laws therefore enforced what clothing individuals were allowed to own and wear, an easy and immediate way to identify rank and privilege. Pirate clothing, especially that of the successful and wealthy pirates took great delight in flouting the Elizabethan Sumptuary Laws.