vagrance

1601, John Legat, printer to the University of Cambridge (publisher), Ease for Overseers of the Poore: Abstracted from the Statutes https://books.google.com/books?id=vJ7ZgWitKDsC&pg=PP5&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false […] but as they have wavering and straying mindes, so they will have wandering and unstaid bodies, which will sooner be disposed to vagrance than activitie, to idlenesse than to worke.

Here vagrance laws were enacted calculated to tie the colored laborer to his late owner by the most arbitrary legal obligations.