Store

To keep for safe custody. O’Nlel v. Ins. Co., 3 N. Y. 122; Ilymls v. Ins. Co., 16 Barb. (N. Y.) 119. A place where goods are sold at a profit. Alcorn v. State, 71 Miss. 464, 15 South. 37.

Storing ls the keeping merchandise for safe custody, to be delivered in the same condition as when received, where the safe-keeping is the principal object of deposit, and not the consumption or sale. O'Niel v. Buffalo F. Ins. Co., 3 N. Y. 122; Hynds v. Schenectady County Mut Ins. Co., 16 Barb. (N. Y.) 119.

— Public store. A government warehouse, maintained for certain administrative purposes, such as the keeping of military supplies, the storing of imported goods under bands to pay duty, etc.

— Stores. The supplies of different articles provided for the subsistence and accommodation of a ship's crew and passengers.

1, V. To keep merchandise for safe custody, to be delivered in the same condition as when received. Safe-keeping is the principal object of deposit, not consumption or sale.^ See Bailment. 3, n. In England, is never applied to a place where goods are sold, only to a place where they are deposited. In this country, denotes both of these places.' A shop for the sale of goods of any kind, by wholesale or retail. That is, we use "store '' for store-house, a word properly meaning the quantity of a thing accumulated or deposited, for the place of deposit. But " shop " may refer to a place where a mechanic art is carried on.* That Is, again, " store " is of larger signification than " shop." The latter word frequently designates the place in which a mechanic pursues his trade." The common use of "store," when applied to a building, is to designate a place where trafflc is carried on in goods, wares and merchandise, and not to designate a "store-house." ^ Store fixtures. Store fittings or furniture, which are peculiarly adapted to make a room a store rather than something else. " Store " designates a shop or warehouse, never a factory. Therefore, fixtures in a ' Potts V. New Tork, &c. E. Co., 131 Mass. 457 (1881), cases. 2 See Audenried v. Randall, 3 Cliff. 106-9 (1868), cases; Wheelhouse v. Parr, 141 Mass. 595 (1886), cases; Bethell V. Clark, 19 Q. B. D. 553 (1887): 33 Alb. L. J. 446; 1 Law Quar. Rev. 397 (1885); 14 Cent. Law J. 842-44 (1882). cases; 24 id. 387 (1887), cases as to what is a delivery; 1 Am. St. R. 312-14, cases; Story, Sales, §§ 343^7; 2 Kent, 702; 5 Wait, Act. &Def. 613. 3 See O'Niel v. Buffalo Fire Ins. Co., 3 N. Y. 127 (1849); 16 Barb. 129; 6 Wend. 628; 5 Minn. 503. < Barth v. State, 18 Conn. ♦440 (1847), Storrs, J. » State V. Canney, 19 N. H. i37 ^1848), Gilchrist, C. J. « Sparrenberger v. State, 53 Ala. 4S3 (1875), Brickell, Chief Justice. shoe factory are not covered by the expression "store fixtures," in a policy of insurance." ' Store orders. Legislation intended to prevent persons sui jiiris from making their own contracts for the sale of labor or merchandise is unconstitutional; as, a statute providing that no person shall issue, for the payment of labor, any order or paper than such as is redeemable in money.'* See Circulation.

V. Storing is the keeping merchandise for safe custody, to be delivered in the same condition as when received, where the safe-keeping is the principal object of deposit, and not the consumption or sale. O'Niel v. Buffalo Fire Ins. Co., 3 N. Y. 122; Hynds v. Schenectady County Mut. Ins. Co., 16 Barb. 119. Keeping oil and liquors, by a grocer, for the purposes of retail, is not within the meaning of a policy which prohibits " storing" goods hazardous or extra-hazardous. Langdon v. Equitable Ins. Co., 1 HaR, 226. Keeping spirituous liquors in a house, for the purpose of retailing them to boarders ing " liquor therein. Kafferfcy v. New Brunswick Fire Ins. Co., 18 N. J. L. 480. Storehouse. A building in which goods are kept for sale by a retail merchant is a " storehouse," within N. C. Rev. Stat. ch. 34, § 1. State v. Sandy, 3 Ired. L. 570. The terms "storehouse" and. "warehouse," as used in Ky. Gen. Stat. ch. 29, art. 6, § 4, mean any house not an office or a shop, or any room in a steam or other boat, in which goods, wares, and merchandise are usually deposited for safe-keeping or for sale. Kay v. Commonwealth, 12 Bush, 397.