The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-17
wha, Some wo rds Meas AT Law.

From the Albany Law Journal
ITO resort" means TO go once or more
In State against All Sam the Nevada su'
preme Court, under statute forbiding any
one ITO resort" to any place to smoke OPT
um, said: 1.-THE appellant also contends
that the District Judge erred in instructing
the Jury to the effect that going once to a
place kept for opium smoking for the pur.
pose Of smoking is M infraction otthe law.
What the statue forhidsall persons to do Ia
TO resort to such places, and 1t Is argued
that resort meads not to go merely once,
but to 20 and 20 again; in other words, to
make practice Of going. The etymology
OF the word resort lends some support to
this argument, but the definition given In
the lexicons shows that whatever may
have been It's original meaning It no
longer means anything more in the con.
nection in which 1t is employed in the
statute than to go once"
Eggs" are not "mest" or poultry
within o statute prohibiting the sale Of
such articles when unsound. Boring
through the floor with an augur Consti-
tutes burglary, says the Alabama Supreme
Court in Walker against State. This was
where the prisoner bored hole through
the floor OF a corn-Crib, stopped It up with
a cob, and alterward, on q separate occa-
sion, drew the ghelled corn through the
hole. into q sack underneath the crib.
brass knrcka" Is used In the statute as
the name Of weapon, without reference
10 the metal OF which it Is made. There
fore q conviction OF uulswiully carrying
"brass knucks' will not be set aside be-
cause It was proved that the Eoapoa vas
lead or pewter, Terms cash" Is not
equivalent to "received payment"
"felms cash." on an unrecelpted bill Of
goods sent BY Q wholesale TO retail
dealer, cannot be held as matter Of law to
imply that the goods we're paid for before
they were shipped:
a farm oyerseer isuot a "laborer" with.
in the lien law. Notes, bills, etc, repre-
senting money loaned on interest by q
corporation are property" liable to TAX
alton. A railroad depot is a "warahouSe,"
within the statute Of burglary,
A sunday School Is not "diyine wor-
ship" but building for the sessions Of q
Sunday School aud religious lectures Is
for religious purposen although ooc4S.
lonally used for fairs aud other benevolent
purposes. Thecourt saidE Pennsylvania
easel, 1.-THE Sunday School room sut
the lecture room OF q modern church arr
as essentially used for religious pur'
poses as the body OF thu
church building itself. The Sabbath
schools are IN important auxiliary o
every Christian church, and indlspensa
Bile to its life and growth. That the seryicel
in such schools are in the main OF re
ligious character Is too well known to bt
seriously disputed. So Of the lecture room
Il Is used for the mId.Yeek evening leo
lures and other services, when the attend
anee Is not large. The. expense Of lighting
and heating the main church building /
thus avoided. But the services upon Rpel
occasions are "a truly religious In thei
character IS the sermon upon the Sab
bath"
a supervising architect Is & person per
forming ''labor," although not . "laborer,
within the meaning OF the mechanics liel
law, A widow keeping q boarding house
with q female friend residing with her
and female servants, beside the boatderF
d the |head Of the family" But singh
man, who keeps house and has no oshe