Drunkard — Law Dictionary

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

One who by habitual use of intoxicants is deprived of reasonable self-control. See 23 Colo. 87, 33 L. R. A. 832, 46 Pac. 117.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

He is a drunkard whose habit it is to get drunk; whose ebriety has become habitual. The terms "drunkard" and "habitual drunkard" mean the same thing. Com. v. Whitney, 5 Gray (Mass.) 85; Gourlay v. Gourlay, 16 R. I. 705, 19 Atl. 142. A "common" drunkard is defined by statute in some states as a person who has been convicted of drunkenness (or proved to have been drunk) a certain number of times within a limited period. State v. Kelly, 12 R. I. 535; State v. Fiynn, 16 R. I. 10, 11 Atl. 170. Elsewhere the word "common" in this connection is understood as being equivalent to "habitual," (State v. Savage, 89 Ala. 1, 7 South. 183, 7 L. R. A. 426; Co.m. v. McNamee, 112 Mass. 286; State v. Ryan, 70 Wis. 676, 36 N. W. 823 ;) or perhaps as synonymous with "public," (Co.m. v. Whitney, 5 Gray [Mass.] 86.)

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Heis a drunkard whose habit itis to get drunk; whose ebriety has become habitual. The terms “drunkard” and “habitual drunkard” mean the same thing. & Gray, $5.