Secular business
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
As used in Sunday laws, this term includes nil forms of activity in the business affairs of life, the prosecution of a trade or employment, and commercial dealings, such as the making of promissory notes, lending money, and the like.
See Lovejoy v. Whipple, 18 Vt. 383, 46 Am. Dec. 157; Finn v. Donahue, 35 Conn. 217 ; Allen v. Deming, 14 N. H. 139, 40 Am. Dec. 179; Smith v. Foster, 4i N. H. 221.