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Entire day

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

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.

Robertson v. State. 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-four hours, commencing and terminating at midnight.

Haines v. State, 7 Tex. App. 30.