Daytime
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The time during which there is the light of day, as distinguished from night or night-time. That portion of the twenty-four hours during which a man’s person and countenance are distinguishable.
9 Mass. 154; 1 Car. & P. 297.
In law, this term is chiefly used in the definition of certain crimes, as to which it is material whether the act was committed by day or by night.