Neat
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1891), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
or NET, The exact weight of an article, without the bag, box, keg, or other thing in which it may be enveloped.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See Net.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
NET. The clear weight or quantity of an article, without the bag, box, keg, or other thing in which it may be enveloped.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
See Net. The phrase neat cattle, in its popular meaning, as well as in the sense in which it is used in the Texas criminal code, means a species of animals having an essential identity in qualities, to be taken and considered either collectively or individually. Hubotter v. State, 32 Tex. 479. An indictment under a statute punishing the stealing of cattle, which charged a theft of " three head of neat stock or beeves," was held uncertain. AH neat stock are not beeves. Castello v. State, 36 Tex. 324.