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Old 11-26-2007, 07:34 AM   #53
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Originally Posted by astra_lestat View Post
What does vice charge in the following sentence mean?

From my records, it seems Mr. X is being held on a putative Y County vice charge.
It is ambiguous.
It also seems that Y County is only putatively a county: maybe it is only a village with pretensions.
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