 | 1854 - 1112 pages
...that unpretended worship. He may be no denominationalist ; he may make * " The Lord's day is taboo : all worldly business, amusements, and recreation are...forbidden on that day ; and whoever shall keep open hia •hop, store, warehouse, or workshop, or shall do any manner of labour, taulness, or work, except... | |
 | Harmon Kingsbury - Sabbath - 1840 - 404 pages
...Passed, 1797. MASSACHUSETTS. " Sec. 1st. No person shall keep open his shop, warehouse, or workhouse, or shall do any manner of labor, business, or work, (except only works of necessity and charity,)" on the Lord's day. " Sec. 2d. No person shall travel on" that day, " except from necessity or charity."... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 738 pages
...Parker v. Latney, 60 id., 528, and cases cited ; Pope v. Linn, 50 id., 83. In Massachusetts. "No person shall do any manner of labor, business or work, except only works of necessity and Tucker vs. West et al. charity, on the Lord's day," etc. The execution of a bond on the Lord's day,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...Massachusetts law prohibits " any person from keeping open his shop, warehouse, or workhouse, or doing any manner of labor, business, or work, except only works of necessity and charity, or being present at any dancing or any public diversion, show, or entertainment, or taking part in any... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 752 pages
...statute. The statute is as follows : " No person shall keep open his shop, warehouse, or workhouse, or shall do any manner of labor, business, or work,...necessity and charity, or be present at any dancing, or at any public diversion, show, or entertainment, or take part in any sport, game, or play, on the... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 758 pages
...religious purposes, is a work of charity, within the meaning of the statute prohibiting the doing of any manner of labor, business, or work, except only works of necessity and charity, on Sunday; and that a promise to pay a certain sum for that purpose, made in response to such solicitation,... | |
 | Michigan, Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Law - 1857 - 828 pages
...DAY OF THE WEEK. {1574.) SECTION 1. No person shall keep open his shop, •warehouse or workhouse, or shall do any manner of labor, business or work,...necessity and charity or be present at any dancing, or at any public diversion, show or entertainment, or take part in any sport, game or play, on tho... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 672 pages
...50, furnishes as plain an example of this rule of pleading as can be found. By section 1, " no person shall do any manner of labor, business, or work, except only works of necessity or charity, on the Lord's day." By section 2, " no person shall travel on the Lord's day, except from... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 664 pages
...is void by reason of if being executed on that day. The Rev. Sts. c. 50, $ 1, enact that " no person shall do any manner of labor, business or work, except only works of necessity and charity, on the Lord's day." And the statement of facts admits that there is nothing to show that thr execution... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Consideration (Law) - 1866 - 830 pages
...prohibited, (q) (?) la Massachusetts, Maine, and Michigan, the words of the statute are, that " no person shall do any manner of labor, business, or work, except only works of necessity and charity, on the Lord's day." In New Hampshire, "No person shall do any labor, business, or work, of his secular... | |
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Any person who shall keep open his shop, warehouse or workhouse, or shall do any manner of labor, business or work, except only works of necessity and charity... 
