LABOR

1. Work; toil; service. Continued exertion, of the more onerous and inferior kind, usually and chiefly consisting in the protracted expenditure of muscular force, •adapted to the accomplishment of specific useful ends. It is used in this sense in several legal phrases, such as "a count tor work and labor," "wages ot' la:bor," etc. "Labor" "busine " and "work" are not syn- ·onyms. 'Labor may 'be busine , but it is not nece arily so; and busine is not always labor. Labor implies toil; exertion producing wearine ; manual exertion of a toilsome nature. Making an agreement, for the sale of a chattel is not within a prohibition of common labor upon Sunday, though it is (if by a merchant in his calling) within a prohibition upon busine . Bloom v. Richards, 2 Ohio St. 387. -Common labor, within the meaning of Sunday laws, is not to be restricted to manual or physical labor, but includes the transaction of ordinary busine , trading, and the execution of notes and other instruments. Bryan v. Watson, 127 Ind. 42, 26 N. E. 666, 11 L. R. A. 63; Link v. Cle=ens, 7 Blackf. (Ind.) 480; Cincinnati v. Rice, 15 Ohio, 225; Eitel v. State, 33 Ind. 201. But compare Bloom v. Richards. 2 Ohio St. 387; Horacek v. Keebler, 5 Neb. 355. It does not include the transaction of judicial busine or the acts of public officers. State v. Thomas, 61 Ohio St. 444, 56 N. E. 276, 48 L. R. A. 459; Hastings v. Columbus, 42 Ohio St. 585. 2. A. Spanish land measure, in use in Mexico and formerly in Texas, equivalent to ( ·1771/7 acres. LABOR A [s. 697] A Law Dictionary (Black's Law Dictionary), 2nd Ed. 1910 ana Sözlük (A–Z)