Labor

1.

Work; toil; service. Continued exertion, of the more onerous and inferior kind, usually and chiefly consisting in the protracted expenditure of muscular force, adapted to the accempllshment of specific useful ends. It is used in this sense in several legal phrases, such as "& count for work and labor," "wages of labor," etc. "Labor," "business," and "work" are not synonyms. Labor may be business, but it is not necessarily so; and business is not always labor. Labor implies toil; exertion producing weariness; manual exertion of a toilsome nature. Making an agreement for the sale of a chattel is not within a prohibition of common labor upon Sunday, though it is (if by a merchant in his calling) within a prohibition upon business.

Bloom v. Richards, 2 Ohio St. 387.

Common labor

within the meaning of Sunday laws, is not to be restricted to manual or physical labor, but includes the transaction of ordinary business, trading, and the execution of notes and other instruments.Bryan v. Watson, 127 Ind. 42, 26 N. E. 666, 11 L. R. A. 63 ; Link v. Clemmens, 7 Blackf. (Ind.) 480; Cincinnati v. Rice, 15 Ohio, 225; Eitel v. State, 33 Ind. 201. But compare Bloom v. Richards.

2 Ohio St. 387 ; Horacek v. Keebler, 5 Neb. 355.

It does not include the transaction of judicial business or the acts of public officers. State v. Thomas.

61 Ohio St. 444. 56 N. E. 276. 48 In R A. 459; Hastings v. Columbus, 42 Ohio St. 585. 2.

A Spanish land measure, in use in Mexico and formerly in Texas, equivalent to 177V7 acres.