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Eavesdropping is the act of surreptitiously listening to a private conversation. This is commonly thought to be unethical and there is an old adage
Adage

An adage , or adagium , is a short but memorable saying that holds some important fact of experience that is considered true by many people, or that has gained some credibility through its long use....
 that eavesdroppers seldom hear anything good of themselves.

History
Ancient Anglo-Saxon law
Anglo-Saxon law

While there is virtually no evidence of Anglo-Saxon law per se , a significant amount of the literature of law from the Anglo-Saxon period still survives....
 punished eavesdroppers, who skulked in the eavesdrip
Eavesdrip

The eavesdrip is the width of ground around a house or building which receives the rain water dropping from the eaves.This is sometimes also known as the eavesdrop, but an eavesdrop is also a small, not very visible hole in a building used to listen in on the conversation of people awaiting admission to the building....
 of another's home, with a fine; the eavesdrip was also sometimes called the eavesdrop. Eavesdrop also means a small low visibility hole near the entrance to a building (generally under the eaves
Eaves

An eave is the edge of a roof. Eaves usually project beyond the side of the building generally to provide weather protection. Some buildings, such as American Craftsman bungalows, have very wide eaves with decorative Bracket#In_mechanics_and_structuress....
) which would allow the occupants to listen in on the conversation of people awaiting admission to the house.






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Eavesdropping is the act of surreptitiously listening to a private conversation. This is commonly thought to be unethical and there is an old adage
Adage

An adage , or adagium , is a short but memorable saying that holds some important fact of experience that is considered true by many people, or that has gained some credibility through its long use....
 that eavesdroppers seldom hear anything good of themselves.

History


Ancient Anglo-Saxon law
Anglo-Saxon law

While there is virtually no evidence of Anglo-Saxon law per se , a significant amount of the literature of law from the Anglo-Saxon period still survives....
 punished eavesdroppers, who skulked in the eavesdrip
Eavesdrip

The eavesdrip is the width of ground around a house or building which receives the rain water dropping from the eaves.This is sometimes also known as the eavesdrop, but an eavesdrop is also a small, not very visible hole in a building used to listen in on the conversation of people awaiting admission to the building....
 of another's home, with a fine; the eavesdrip was also sometimes called the eavesdrop. Eavesdrop also means a small low visibility hole near the entrance to a building (generally under the eaves
Eaves

An eave is the edge of a roof. Eaves usually project beyond the side of the building generally to provide weather protection. Some buildings, such as American Craftsman bungalows, have very wide eaves with decorative Bracket#In_mechanics_and_structuress....
) which would allow the occupants to listen in on the conversation of people awaiting admission to the house. Typically this would allow the occupant to be prepared for unfriendly visitors.

Early telephone
Telephone

The telephone is a telecommunications device that is used to transmitter and receive electronically or digitally encoded sound between two or more people conversing....
 systems shared party line
Party line

The phrase party line may refer to:*Party line , an informal term for the agenda of a political party*Party line , a system where multiple telephone customers are connected to the same phone line...
s which would allow the sharing subscribers to listen to each others conversations. This was a common practice in rural America which resulted in many incidents and feuds.

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