servile labor

servile labor
Menial labor. State v Stout, 43 Okla Crim 19, 276 P 795. Labor requiring physical rather than mental effort. State v Smith, 19 Okla Crim 184, 198 P 879. Secular, everyday business. "A sheriff may race his horse after a fugitive debtor, and find the exercise servile enough; and, I think, common sense would say it was also secular." Per Brainard, J., in Gladwin v Lewis, 6 Conn 49.

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