habitual drunkenness

habitual drunkenness
A very frequent condition of intoxication. The result of indulging a natural or acquired appetite for intoxicating liquors, by continued use, until it becomes a customary practice. 29 Am J Rev ed Ins Per § 8. A disease of mind and body, analogous to insanity. Leavitt v Morris, 105 Minn 170, 117 NW 393. As ground for divorce:–habitually drinking intoxicating drinks immoderately and a habit of getting drunk. Anno: 120 ALR 1177.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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  • habitual drunkenness or intoxication — One who frequently and repeatedly becomes intoxicated by excessive indulgence in intoxicating liquor so as to acquire a fixed habit and an involuntary tendency to become intoxicated as often as the temptation is presented, even though he remains… …   Black's law dictionary

  • habitual intoxication — habitual drunkenness or intoxication One who frequently and repeatedly becomes intoxicated by excessive indulgence in intoxicating liquor so as to acquire a fixed habit and an involuntary tendency to become intoxicated as often as the temptation… …   Black's law dictionary

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  • drunkenness — That state or condition of a person which inevitably follows from taking excessive quantities of an intoxicant, meaning to some men the condition of being under the influence of an intoxicant to such an extent as to render one helpless, to others …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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