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Drunkard

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Synonymous with "habitual drunkard" (q. v.) 5 Gray (Mass.) 85, He is a drunkard whose habit is to get drunk, "whose ebriety has become habitual."

5 Gray (Mass.) 86.

As for a drunkard, he is voluntanus daemon; he hath no privilege thereby; but what hurt or ill soever he doth, his drunkenness doth aggravate it.

9 Humph. (Tenn.) 665.