Ticket

What the legislature has meant by the word ticket, in a statute to prohibit the circulation of tickets, must he matter of construction, to be gathered from the terms employed in the act; the word itself has no legal or other fixed and determinate meaning. There are tickets of various descriptions and for various purposes, such as lottery tickets, play-house tickets, admission tickets at public exhibitions or private parties, or to a seat in a stage, or for a passage in a steamboat, and others.

Allaire v. Howell Works Co., 14 N. J. L. 21.

Ticket of leave. Under English laws, a convict, particularly one of those sent to the penal settlements abroad, may, upon continued good conduct, have granted to him a license to be at large; which amounts, in some instances, to a practical remission of the sentence, within the limits and conditions prescribed. This license is called a ticket of leave. It is forfeited by subsequent misconduct. Ticket of leave is a written license to a convict sentenced to penal servitude, to be at large before the expiration of his sentence, and is granted under the hand or seal of one of her majesty's principal secexpressed are: The holder shall preserve his license, and produce it when called upon to do so by a magistrate or police-officer; he shall abstain from any violation of the law; he shall not habitually associate with notoriously bad characters; he shall not lead an idle and dissolute life, without visible means of obtaining an honest livelihood. These licenses are revocable at any time before the term of the sentence has expired: and, if a license is revoked in consequence of the party's conviction for any of Eence, he will be liable to undergo a term of penal servitude equal to the portion of his term which remained unexpired when the license was granted. Mozley Sf W. Ticket-of-leave man. A convict who has obtained a ticket of leave.