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Entire Day

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

This phrase signifies an undivided day, not parts of two days. An entire day must have a legal, fixed, precise time to begin, and a fixed, precise time to end. A day, in contemplation of law, comprises all the twenty-four hours, beginning and ending at twelve o’clock at night.

43 Ala. 325.

In a statute requiring the closing of all liquor saloons during “the entire day of any election,” etc., this phrase means the natural day of twenty-fuur hours, commencing and terminating at midnight.

7 Tex. App. 30; Id. 192.