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Definition of Hackmen
1. hackman [n] - See also: hackman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hackmen
Literary usage of Hackmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1893)
"make unjust discrimination.1 Common instances of such regulations are seen in
rules forbidding hackmen, hotel drummers, or loiterers, from entering the ..."
2. The Principles of the Law of Public Corporations by Charles Burke Elliott, John Edward Macy (1910)
"Hotel runners and hackmen.—A city may regulate the conduct of hackmen, ...
An ordinance limiting the number of hackmen who may stand in front of a hotel is ..."
3. Underground: Gambling and Its Horrors. by Thomas Wallace Knox (1876)
"hackmen, all the world over, are proverbial for dishonesty. Horse-jockeys are
never mentioned ... hackmen are bad enough every where ; but I think the per- ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Jacob Scott Matthews, William Frederick Dickinson (1906)
"... an exclusive right to certain hackmen to solicit patronage in its station or
grounds, and exclude all other hackmen from exercising a similar privilege. ..."
5. Commentaries on the Law of Public Corporations, Including Municipal by Charles Fisk Beach (1893)
"hackmen, draymen, etc.— The provision in the charter of the city of Minneapolis
authorizing the city council " to license and regulate hackmen, draymen, ..."
6. Law of Real Property: Being a Complete Compendium of Real Estate Law by Emerson Etheridge Ballard, Tilghman Ethan Ballard, Arthur Walker Blakemore (1903)
"Use of right of way—Controlling use of by hackmen. A railroad company which has
granted to one the exclusive privilege of entering upon its station grounds ..."
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