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Definition of Dramshops
1. dramshop [n] - See also: dramshop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dramshops
Literary usage of Dramshops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"The same love of coarse enjoyment which fosters the low dramshops of Liverpool
and of London has peopled and enriched the slums of New York. ..."
2. The Missions and Missionaries of California by Zephyrin Engelhardt (1913)
"dramshops at Santa Barbara.—Missions Exempt from Taxation.—Governor Sola.—Insists
on Taxing the Neophytes.— Spanish Laws Concerning Indian Converts. ..."
3. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"System of Management.—Statistics of this Prison.—Chief Causes of Crime.—Memorial
of the Convicts against dramshops.— Food and general Health of the ..."
4. Select Cases on the Law of Torts: With Notes, and a Summary of Principles by John Henry Wigmore (1912)
"dramshops. (Ch. 43.) § 9. Every person who shall, by the sale of intoxicating
liquors, with or without a license, cause the intoxication of any other person ..."
5. Charter and Revised Ordinances of Kansas City, 1909 by Kansas City (Mo.), Rees Turpin, George Kingsley, Charles L. Shannon (1909)
"dramshops—Application for License—Indorsement of Police Commissioners—Notice of
Application. ... Elections—dramshops to be Closed—Duty of Commissioners. ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"St art 43, § 2, entitled "dramshops," providing that whoever, not having a license
to keep a dramshop, shall by himself, etc., sell liquors, shall be. fined ..."
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