Newspaper

A printed publication, Issued in numbers at stated intervals, conveying intelligence of passing events. The term "newspaper" is commonly applied to such publications only as are issued in a single sheet, and at short intervals, as daily or weekly.

4 Op. Attys. Gen. U. S. 10; 7 Exch. 97.

As used in statutes regulating the publication of legal notices, etc., a newspaper must contain matter of general interest; a journal confined to the interests of a single trade or profession not being within the term.

25 Minn. 147. But see 75 111. 61.

But where, though the main body of the paper is devoted to some special interest, there is in each issue one or more columns of general news and reading matter and advertisements confined to no one calling or trade, the publication is a newpaper.

126 111.

219 (law journal); 38 Minn. 349 (religious weekly); 43 N. Y. Supp. 720 (daily mercantile journal). held in bondage by their creditors until their debts were discharged. Vicat; Heinec. Ant. Rom. lib.

3. tit. 330; Calv. Lex.; Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 486a.