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Re: what are blue laws? [nt]


Submitted by Bonzo on September 11 2001 08:40:37
In reply to what are blue laws? [nt] submitted by F.O.D. on September 11 2001 05:57:10

Hi FOD --

blue law noun
1. A law designed to regulate Sunday activities, such as shopping in retail stores.
2. One of a body of laws in colonial New England designed to enforce certain moral standards and particularly to prohibit specified forms of entertainment or recreation on Sundays.

Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.

-- Bonzo


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