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Entire day

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

This phrase signifies an undivided day, not parts of two days. An entire day must have a legal, fixed, precise time to begin, and a fixed, precise time to-end. A day, in contemplation of law, comprises all the twenty-four hours, beginning and ending at twelve o'clock at night. Robertson v. State. 43 Ala. 325. In a statute requiring the closing of all liquor saloons during "the entire day of any election," etc., this phrase means the natural day of twenty-four hours, commencing and terminating at midnight. Haines v. State, 7 Tex. App. 30.

Defined under Entire in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

This phrase signifies an undivided day, not parts of two days. An entire day must have a legal, fixed, precise time to begin, and a fixed, precise time to end. A day, in contemplation of law, comprises all the twenty-four hours, beginning and ending at twelve o’clock at night. 43 Ala. 325. In a statute requiring the closing of all liquor saloons during “the entire day of any election,” etc., this phrase means the natural day of twenty-fuur hours, commencing and terminating at midnight. 7 Tex. App. 30; Id. 192.