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Categories: Criminal Law
Definition (1910 Edition)
581, 6 L. Ed. 166.—Day-time. The time during which there is the light of day, as distinguished from night or night-time. That portion of the twenty-four hours during which & man’s person and countenance are distinguishable. Trull v. Wilson, 9 Mass. 154; Rex v. Tandy, 1 Car. & P. 297 - Linnen v. Banfield, 114 Mich. 93, 72 N. W. 1. In law, this term is chiefly used in the definition of certain crimes, as to which it is material whether thé act was committed by day or by night.—Judicial day. A day on which the court is actually in session.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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