Theater
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
Any edifice used for the purpose of dramatic or operatic or other representations, plays, or performances, for admission to which entrance-money is received, not including halls rented or used occasionally for concerts or theatrical representations.
Act of congress of July 13, 1866, § 9, 14 Stat, at L. 126.
The word theatre does not import, ex vi termini, a place where valuable goods which may be the subject of larceny are stored. It does not necessarily import any thing more than a stage on which actors play, and a room in which acting is done and seen.
Lee v. State, 56 Ga. 477.