Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-01-13
WORDS IN LAW.
What Different Aspects the Courts
Tut pom Common Expressions


10 resort means To go once or
more. In State against An sam, the
Nevada supreme court, under n statute
forhidding any one "to resort 20 any
place to smoke opium, said, The ap-
pellant also contends that the district
Judge erred in instructing the jury to
the effect that going once TO n place
kept for opium smoking for the pur-
pose of smoking is an nfraction Cf the
law. What the statute forbids all per
sons Ia do Is to resort to such places,
and ii Is argued that resort means not
to go merely once, but TO so and go
again; in other words, to make II prac-
tee of going. The etymology of the
word resort lends some support to
this argument, but the definitions Civ
en- in the lexicons show that whatever
may have been its original meaning. it
no longer means anything more in the
connection in which it is employed in
the statute than to go once
Eggs" are not meat" or poultry
within n statute prohibiting the sale of
such articles when unsound. Boring
through a floor with an auger consti-
tutes burglary, says the Alabama SUI
preme court, in Walker against State.
This was when the prisoner bored u
helo through the floor Of corn crib,
stopped it up with n cob and afterward,
on n separate occasion. drewthc shelled
corn through the hole into \ sack I'M
derneath the crib. Brass kuucks" il
used in the statute us the nal.c of
weapon, without reference TO the metal
of which it is made, Therefore. a CON
yictiou of mlawfully carrying brass
knucks' will not he set aside bocausei il
was proved that the weapon was lead
or pewter. Germs cash" is not equiv
alent to received payment" Terms
cash on an unrecoipted bill of goods
sent 10y II wholesale to retail dealer
cannot be held rs n matter of law to
imply that the goods were paid for be
fore they were shipped
\ farm oyerseer is not "lahorer'
within the lien law Notes, bills, etc,
representing money loaned on interest
by a corporation, are property" liable
to taxation 4 railroad depot is II
warehouse within the statute of
burglary,
\ Sunday school is not Divine wor-
ship" but a building for the sessions of
a Sunday school and religious lectures
is for a religious purpose" although
occasionally used for fairs and other
benevolent purposes. The court said
i'm Pennsylvania easel; "The Sunday
school rooms and the lecture rooms of
n modern church are rs essentially
used for religious purposes rs the body
Of the church building itself The
| Sabbath schools are an important aux
| iliary of every christian church, and
indispensable to its life and growth.
| That the services in such schools are in
the main of a religious character is too
we'll known to be seriously disputed
! So of the lecture room. 1t Is used fOr
the mid-woek lectures and other ser
vices when the attendance is Rot large.
The expense of lighting and heating the
main building is thus avoided But
| the services upon such occasions are rs
truly religious in their characters rs the
sermon upon the Sabbath"
A supervising architect is n person
performing "labor," although not II
"laborcr' within the meaning Of the
mechanics lien law. \ widow keeping
boarding house with II female friend
residing with her, and female servants,
besides the boardors, is the head of n
family" But n single man who keeps
house and has no other persons living
with him than servants and employees
is not the "hcad Of family" or n
"Eouse-hoIdcr" And M unmarried
man who does moi keep house, but sup
ports his mother aud his unmarried
sister, who board with his married sis-
ter in another town is not the "hcad of
family"
I'll. bnt,luf Ian