intoxicating quality

intoxicating quality
The distinctive characteristic of an intoxicating liquor, being that quality which renders a beverage such that when used it will produce intoxication to some extent. 30 Am J Rev ed Intox L§5.

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  • liquor — Any sort of liquid or fluid substance, but in common parlance a beverage with an intoxicating quality. 30 Am J Rev ed Intox L § 8. A beverage of high potency produced by distillation. 30 Am J Rev ed Intox L § 8. Broadly, an alcoholic or spiritu… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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