Intoxication - Page 2 - Law Dictionary

Licensed victualler

Licensed victualler. The holder of the general publican's licence, under the Licensing (Consolidation) Act,1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24), is the licensed victualler par excellence, but the term may be applied to any person selling any kind of intoxicating liquor under a licence from the justices of the peace. See INTOXICATING LIQUORS....

Wine Licences

Wine Licences. See INTOXICATING LIQUORS; the (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Intoxicating Liquors,' and Paterson on Licensing....

Brewster sessions

Brewster sessions. The special sessions of licensing justices annually held in the first 14 days of February for the grant of licenses for sale by retail of intoxicating liquors to be drunk on the premises where sold. See INTOXICATING LIQUORS. Before the Licensing Act, 1902, these sessions were held under s. 1 of the Licensing Act, 1828, in August and September, and in Middlesex and Surrey in March....

Rum

A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice or from the scummings of the boiled juice or from treacle or molasses or from the lees of former distillations Also sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor...

Intoxicant

That which intoxicates an intoxicating agent as alcohol opium and laughing gas are intoxicants...

Inebrious

Intoxicated or partially so intoxicating...

Licence

Licence [fr. licentia, Lat.], a permission given by one man to another to do some act which without such permission it would be unlawful for him to do. It is a personal right, and is not transferable, but dies with the man to whom it is given. It can as a rule be revoked by the licensor unless the licensee has paid money for it (Odgers on the Common Law, pp. 25, 574). As to the nature and effect of the licence granted to the purchaser of a ticket for a theatre or other similar entertainment, see Hurst v. Picture Theatres, (1915) 1 KB 1, and the authorities there referred to, and Allen & Sons v. King, (1916) 2 AC 54. It may be either written or verbal; when written, the paper containing the authority is often called a licence. A licence amounting to or coupled with an interest in an incorporeal hereditament must be under seal [see Wood v. Leadbitter, (1845) 13 M&W 838], or it may be revocable, but see Lowe v. Adams, (1901) 1 Ch 598.A licence is necessary before doing many acts, as to ma...

Shop

Shop, a place where thins are kept for sale, usually in small quantities, to the actual consumers. By (English) Shops Act, 1912, s. 19, 'shop' includes any premises where any 'retail trade or business' is carried on; 'retail trade or business' includes the business of a barber or hairdresser, but not the sale of programmes, etc., at places of amusement.A business establishment or place of employment; a factory, office, or other place of business, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1384.The (English) Shops Act, 1934, deals with the employment of persons under eighteen years, repealing s. 2 of the (English) Shops Act, 1912; but the other provisions are unaffected. The 1934 Act, s. 1, provides that no young person (under eighteen) shall be employed for more than the normal maximum working hours, that is, forty-eight hours in any week; it makes restrictions on right employment, has special provisions as to the catering trade, the sale of accessories for Aircraft, motor vehicles and cycle...

Making a false document

Making a false document, A person is said to make a false document-who dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document was made, signed or sealed by a competent authority or who without lawful authority, dishonestly or fraudulently, by cancellation or otherwise, alters a document in any material part thereof or who dishonestly or fraudulently causes any person to sign, seal or execute or alter a document knowing that such person by reason of unsoundness of mind or intoxication cannot or by reason of deception does not know the nature of the document or the nature of alteration [Indian Penal Code, s. 464]...

Drunkenness

The state of being drunken with or as with alcoholic liquor intoxication inebriety used of the casual state or the habit...

Intoxication - Law Dictionary Search Results