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.