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Liquor

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

Black's Law Dictionary

This term, when used in statutes forbidding the sale of liquors, refers only to spirituous or intoxicating liquors. Brass v. State, 45 Fla. 1, 34 South. 307; State v. Brittain, 89 N. O. 576; People v. Crilley, 20 Barb. (N. Y.) 248. See Intoxicating Liquor; Spirituous Liquor.

Liquor dealer. One who carries on the business of selling intoxicating liquors, either at wholesale or retail, and irrespective of whether the liquor sold is produced or manufactured by himself or by others; but there must be more than a single sale. See Timm v. Harrison, 109 111. 601; U. S. v. Alien (D. Cil 38 Fed. 738; Fincannon v. State, 93 Ga. 418, 21 S. E. 53; State v. Dow. 21 Vt. 484; Mansfield v. 'State, 17 Tex. App. 472.

Liquor-shop. A house where spirituous liquors are kept and sold. Wooster v. State, 6 Baxt. (Tenn.) 534.

Liquor tax certificate. Under the excise laws of New York, a certificate of payment of the tax imposed upon the business of liquorselling, entitling the . holder to carry on that business, and differing from the ordinary form of license in that it does not confer a mere personal privilege but creates a species of property which is transferable by the owner. See In re Lyman. 160 N. Y. 96, 54 N. E. 577; In re Cullinan, 82 App. Div. 445, 81 N. Y. Supp. 567.