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English
Noun
found-in (plural found-ins)
- (law, historical) One who is known to have been present in a brothel or other illegal establishment, regardless of whether they were actively engaging in illegal activities.
1981 December 27, “Accused Of Becoming An Activist”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 2:Twenty-five-year-old Garnet Plum was convicted of being a found-in in a common bawdyhouse.
1999 10, David Vanek, Fulfilment: Memoirs of a Criminal Court Judge, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 260:He was charged with being a "found-in, without lawful excuse" because of his presence at a party where the person giving the party was convicted of serving liquor to a person who was already intoxicated.
2010, Frank Mackey, Done with Slavery: The Black Fact in Montreal, 1760-1840, page 243:Arrested as found-ins and charged as “public vagabonds and Bawds” were his son Joseph, his daughter Mary, his son-in-law Anthony Billow (alias Beleau, Bellew, Bellow, Bellows, etc.), and Jane Graham, wife of Henry Garret, a black woman arrested several times as a prostitute.