Shop
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The word shop is not the legal equivalent of the word store, in a statute which makes it a penal offence to keep "open store" on Sunday.
Sparrenberger v. State, 53 Ala. 481.
Nor within a statute punishing breaking and entering any shop or store.
State v. Caney, 19 N. H. 135.
The cabin of a vessel is a "shop," within a statute for the punishment of burglary.
State v. Carrier, 6 Day, 131.
But a district school-house is not.
State v. Bailey, 10 Conn. 144.
A banking-house is a "store, shop, or warehouse," within the meaning of a statute punishing the offence of burglariously breaking and entering a shop, store, and warehouse.
Wilson v. State, 24 Conn. 57.
A building kept and used for the sale of goods is rightly denominated a "shop," in an indictment, rather than a "store."
Commonwealth v. Riggs, 14 Gray, 376.
Strictly, a shop is a place where goods are sold by retail, and a store a place where goods are deposited; but in this country, shops for the sale of goods are frequently called stores.
Commonwealth v. Annis, 15 Gray, 197.