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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A privilege accorded by the legislature of a state to the several counties or other districts of the state to determine, each for itself, by popular vote, whether or not licenses should be issued for the sale of intoxicating liquors within such districts.
See Wilson v. State, 35 Aria 416; State v. Brown, 19 Fla. 598.