Sunday: Legal Aspects of the First Day of the Week

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2003 - 321 páginas
Ringgold, James T. Sunday. Legal Aspects of the First Day of the Week. Jersey City: Frederick D. Linn & Co., 1891. xxii, 321 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-332-4. Cloth. $75. * This treatise surveys all known laws relating to Sunday and urges their rejection while it refutes any arguments defending their legality. Contents: "Constitutionality of Sunday Laws in the United States," "Sunday as a Dies Non Juridicus," "Sunday in the Computation of Time," "Sunday Liquor-Selling" and "The Prohibition of Sunday-Labor." With a chronological outline of laws concerning Sunday observance from Antiquity to the present and a table of Sunday laws in each state.
 

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CONSTITUTIONALITY OF SUNDAY LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES
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Cases sustaining the constitutionality of Sunday lawsIn general 912
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Cases sustaining the constitutionality of Sunday laws as to religious liberty
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Cases sustaining the constitutionality of Sunday laws when passed by munic
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CHAPTER II
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CHAPTER III
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CHAPTER IV
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In generalLeaving parties where they stand
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SUNDAY AS A DIES NON JURIDICUS
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CHAPTER VIII
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SUNDAY LIQUORSELLING
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What is Intoxicating Liquor 181
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CHAPTER X
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The Exceptions of Necessity and Charity
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2 Traveling as a necessityThe principle 236238
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5 Manufacturing c as a necessity 242
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The liability of common carriers
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CHAPTER VI
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7 Charity 248
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