FACTORY

In English law. The term includes all bulldin'gs and premises wherein, or within the close or curtilage of which, steam, water, or any mechanical power ia used to move or work any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing, or ftnish• ing cotton, wool, hair, silk, ftax, hemp, jute, or tow. So defined by the statute 7 Viet. c. 15, f 73. By later acts this definition ha& been extended to various other manufacturing places. Mozley & Whitley. Also a place where a considerable number of factors reside, in order to negotiate for their masters or employers. Enc. Brit. In. Am.eric an law. The word "facto~ does not nece arily mean a single building or ediftce, but may apply to eeveral, where they are used in connection with each other, for a common purpose, and stand together in the same inclosure. Lie ben stein v. lnsurance Co., 45 Ill. 303..And see Insurance Co. v. Brock, 157 Pa. 82; Hernischel v. Texas Drue Oo., 26 TeL Civ. App. 1, 61 S. W. 419; Schott v. Harvey, 105 Pa. 227, 151 Am. Rep. 20L In Scotch law. This name 1s given to a 1Pecies of contract or employment which _faUa under the general designation of "agency," but which partakes both of the nature of a mandate and of a ballment of the kind call~ "locatfo ad o ~ " 1 Bell,' Comm. 259. -FactoZ7 prtoe■•.The prl~ 1!,t which good a ma, be bou,ht at th•·fact one a, u distinguish• [s. 482]