Sunday law

Sunday law
A statute or municipal ordinance, sometimes known as a "blue law," which prohibits, with some necessary exceptions, the performance of labor or the engaging in a business, occupation, sport, or amusement enterprise on Sunday or during certain hours on Sunday. Petit v Minnesota, 177 US 164, 44 L Ed 716, 20 S Ct 666. In its enactment, the legislature has given the sanction of law to a rule of conduct, which the entire civilized world recognizes as essential to the physical and moral well-being of society. One day in seven is the rule founded in experience and sustained by science. Hennington v Georgia, 163 US 299, 41 L Ed 166, 16 S Ct 1086.

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