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Intoxicating Liquors

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

Such liquors as will, if used as a beverage, produce drunkenness. 25 Kan. 767. It includes all liquors, whether spirituous, vinous, or malt (70 Mass. 20), of which the human stomach can contain enough to produce intoxication. 21 N. Y. 173.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Those the use of which is ordinarily or commonly attended with entire or partial intoxication. 6 Park. Crim. R. 355. The terms “intoxicating Hquor” and “spirituous liquor” are not synozymous, All spirituous liquor is intoxicating, but all intoxicating liquor is not spirituous. Fermented liquor, though intoxicating, is not spirituous, because not distilled. 2 Gray, 501; 4 Gray, 18.