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Refreshment House

Refreshment House, a house, etc., 'kept open for public refreshment, resort, and entertainment between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.' (24 & 25 Vict.c. 91, s. 8), to keep which an Inland Revenue licence only is required, unless wine, etc., be sold therein, in which case a licence from the justices of the peace is required also. See also (English) Refreshment Houses Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 27), and 39 & 40 Vict. c. 16, s. 4, as to wine licences and subsequent (English) Licensing Acts, and 10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24, s. 1, as to the certificates of justices. See PUBLIC-HOUSE CLOSING ACT; Chit. Stat., tit. 'Refreshment House....

Public-House Closing Act, 1864

Public-House Closing Act, 1864 (English) (27 & 28 Vict. c. 64), an 'adoptive' Act whereby public-houses and refreshment houses, till then allowed to be open all night, were closed in boroughs and Improvement Act districts between 1 and 4 A.M. The Act has been repealed, and the matte is now dealt with by ss. 54-63 and Sch. VI. Of the Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, and amending Acts under the collective title, Licensing Acts, 1910 to 1934. See also REFRESHMENT HOUSE....

Night-House

Night-House, the name sometimes given to a refreshment-house before the (English) Licensing Act, 1872. See PUBLIC-HOUSE CLOSING ACT....

Eating house

Eating house, 'eating house' means any place to which the public are admitted and where any kind of food or drink is supplied for consumption on the premises by any person owning, or having any interest in, or managing, such place and includes,-(i) a refreshment room, boarding house or coffee house, or(ii) a shop where any kind of food or drink is supplied to the public for consumption in or near such shop, but does not include a place of public entertainment. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978), s. 2(h)]...

Coffee house

Coffee house, usually means a house where refresh-ment such as tea or coffee is supplied, Thompson v. Lacy, (1820) 3B & Ald 283....

Drunkenness

Drunkenness, intoxication with strong liquor; habit-ual inebriety. A contract made by a person when so drunk as to be unable to understand what he is doing is voidable if the person with whom the contract was made was aware of the fact, but it is not void, and may be ratified when he becomes sober, Matthews v. Baxter, (1873) LR 8 Ex 132. Mere drunknness was punishable by statutes 4 Jac. 1, c. 5, and 21 Jac. 1, c. 7, ss. 1, 3, by a fine of five shillings and confinement in the stocks in default of distress. Under the Licensing Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), which repeals various previous enactments, drunkenness in a public place or licensed house is punishable by fine (s. 12). Disorderly drunkenness is punishable by fine or imprisonment, and refusal by drunken persons to quit licensed premises is punishable by fine. [(English) Licensing Consolidation Act, 1910, s. 80]The 1st s. of the (English) Licensing Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 28), enacts that--If a person is found drunk in any highw...

Retail

Retail, to sell goods in small parcels and not in gross. For the purpose of the Licensing Acts, retail of spirits is a sale of less than two gallons (Spirits Act, 1880, s. 104), of wine, of less than two gallons, or one dozen quart bottles (Refreshment Houses Act, 1860, s. 4), and of beer or cider, of less than four gallons and a half. [(English) Beer-house Act, 1834, s. 19]The sale of goods or commodities to ultimate consumers, as opposed to the sale for further distribution or processing, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1317...

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