Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-18
What Some Words Mean at Law. 4l.z 1 IL "A -

| l ''To resort" means to go once or more. In | State against An Sam the Nevada supreme | court, under a statue forbidding any one ito
 resort" to any place to smoke opium, said : 1 'eThe appellant also contends that the dis l trict judge erred in instructing the jury to
 the effect that going once to place kept for opium smoking for the purpose of smoking is
 an infriction of the law. What the statute
 forbids all persons to do is to resort to | such places, and it is argued that resort
 means not to go merely once, but to go and go again; in other words, to make a prac- l tice of going. The etymology of the word l resort lends some support to this argument, but the definitions given in the lexicons show that whatever may have been it's orig
 nal meaning it no longer means anything
 more in the connection in which it is em- ployed in the statute than to go once" Eggs are not ''meat'' or poultry" with in statute prohibiting the sale of such arti- cles when unsound. Boring through the floor with an auger constitutes 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 cob, and afterward, on separate occasion, drew the shelled corn through the hole into sack underneath, the crib. Brass knucks" is used in the statute as the name of a weapon, without ference to the metal of which it is made. Therefore conviction of unlawfully carry ing brass knucks" will not be set aside be- cause it has proved that the weapon was lead or pewter. Terms cash'' is not equivalent to received payment" ''Terms cash," on an unreceipted bill of goods sent by whole sale to retail dealer, cannot be held as mat ter of law to imply that the goods were paid
 for before they were shipped
 \ farm overseer is not 'laborer" :" within the lien law. Notes, bills, etc., representing money loaned on interest by a corporation are property liable to taxation. A railroad depot is a warehouse, within the statute of burglary.
 A Sunday school is not ''divine worship :"
 but a building for the sessions of a Sunday school and religious lectures is for religious purpose" although occasionally used for fairs and other benevolent purposes The court said Gin a Pennsylvania case): ''The Sunday school rooms and the lecture room of modern church are as essentially used for re- igous purposes as the body of the churh bnilding itself. The Sabbath schools are an important auxiliary to every Christian church, and indispensable to its life and growth. That the services in such schools are in the main of religious character is too well known to be seriously disputed. So of the lecture-room. It Is used for the mid week evening lectures and other services, when the attendance is not large. The ex- pense of lighting and heating the main church building is thus avoided. But the services upon such occasions truly re- ligous in their character as the sermon upon the Sabbath.
 A supervising architect is person perform ing ''labor,'' although not ''laborer, ;" within the meaning of the mechanics lien law A widow keeping boarding house, with a fe- male friend residing with her, and female servants, beside the boarders, is the ''head of the family" But single man, who keeps house and has no other persons living with him than servants aud employees, Is not stthe head of family or ''householder." And an unmarried man, who does not keep house, but supports his mother and his unmarried sister, who board with his married sister in another town, is not the 'head of family"