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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.