Intemperance
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Habitual immoderate use of intoxicants does not necessarily imply drunkenness. 76 111. 213. INTEND (from Lat. intendere, from in, to or towards, and tendere, to stretch or strain). To fix the mind upon a thing; to mean; to determine; to act with a full knowledge of consequences, and vnth a determination or willingness to produce such consequences. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 18; 3 Maule & S. 11, 15; Burrill, Circ. Ev. 38, 47.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
The use of intoxicants beyond moderation. See 76 HI. 211.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Habitual intemperance is that degree of intemperance from the use of intoxicating drinks which disqualifies the person a great portion of the time from properly attending to business or which would reasonably inflict a course of great mental anguish upon an innocent party. Civ. Co.de Cal. § 106. And sce Mowry v. Home L. Ins. Co., 9 R. I. 355; Zeigler v. Co.m. (Pat) 14 Atl. 238; Tatum v. State, 63 Ala. 149; Elkins v. Buschner (Pat) 16 Atl. 104.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
The habit of drinking to offers, and such that sobriety or abstinence is