River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-01-13
WORDS IN LAW.
what Different Aspects the Courts
Put Upon Common Expressions.

"To resort means to 90 once or
more In State against All Sam, the
Nevada supreme court, under a statute
place to smoke opium, said THE APP
pellant also contends that the district
Judge erred in instructing the jury to
the effect that going once to Il place
kept for opium smoking for the pur-
pose of smoking is an infraction CT the
law. What the statute forbidS all per-
sons 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-
tice 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 a statute prohibiting the sale of
such articles when unsound. Boring
through floor with an anger consti-
tutes burglary, says the Alabama SUI
preme court, in Walker against State
This was when the prisoner bored Il
hole through the floor of corn crib,
stopped it up with cob and afterward,
on separate occasion, drew.the shelled
corn through the hole into sack I'M
derneath the crib. Brass knucks" is
used in the statute as the narse of a
weapon. without reference to the metal
4 - - A.
viction of unlawfully carrying "brass
knucks" will not BE set aside because it
was proved that the weapon was lead
or pewter. "Terms cash" is not equiv
alent to received payment" Terms
cash" on an unreceipted bill of goods
sent by wholesale to a retail dealer
cannot be held as a matter of law to
imply that the goods were paid for be-
fore they were shipped.
A farm overseer is not ''laborer"
within the lien law. Notes, bills, etc,
representing money loaned on interest
by corporation, are property" liable
to taxation. A railroad depot is q
"warehouse" within the statute of
burglary,
A Sunday school is not Divine wor-
ship" 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
lin a Pennsylvania easel: "The Sunday
school rooms and the lecture rooms of
a modern church are as essentially
used for religious purposes as the body
of the church building itself. The
Sabbath sci Jols 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 religious character Is too
well known to be seriously disputed.
So of the lecture room. 1t Is used Tor
the mid-week lectures and other ser
vices when the attendance Is not large.
The expense of lighting and heating the
main building is thus avoided. But
the services upon such occasions are as
truly religious in their characters as the
sermon upon the Sabbath"
4 supervising architect is a person
performing "labor," although not a
''laborer" within the meaning of the
mechanics lien law. A widow keeping
boarding house with female friend
residing with her. and female servants,
besides the boarders, is the "head of a
family" But single man who keeps
house and has no other persons living
with him than servants and employees
is not the "head of a family" or a
householder. And an unmarried
man who does not keep house, but sup
ports his mother and his unmarried
sister, who board with his married sis
ter in another town Is not the shead OF