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blue law

1. A law designed to prohibit or limit the transaction of commercial business or the holding of recreational activities on Sundays.

2. One of a body of laws in colonial New England designed to enforce certain moral standards and particularly to prohibit specified forms of entertainment or recreation on Sundays.

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blue′ law`

1. any law that forbids certain practices, as doing business or dancing, on Sunday.

2. any of the puritanical laws of colonial New England regulating personal conduct.

[1775–85, Amer.]

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blue law - a statute regulating work on Sundays

law - legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping"

law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

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'Blue Laws,' in virtue whereof, among other enlightened provisions, any citizen who could be proved to have kissed his wife on Sunday, was punishable, I believe, with the stocks.

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"That was the time of the Blue Laws, but perhaps it was too rigorous for King John.

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The repeal of the "blue law" in Quebec, the province where Jean Coutu is based and has the bulk of its stores, has increased competition.

Jean Coutu remains on expansion track

Blue Law, who has come down a long way to 48 from the 66 at which he won at Naas two seasons ago, rates a big threat, but Gagnant will be hard to beat.

Gagnant on attractive mark at Roscommon

Blue Law, ridden by Seamie Heffernan for Andrew Oliver, was in the firing line all the way and emerged on top in a three-way photo finish to the 6f three-year-old handicap.

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The last major change to Colorado liquor laws made by the Colorado General Assembly was the reversal of the blue law in July 2008 that had been in effect since Prohibition, restricting liquor sales on Sundays.

Colorado liquor laws are complicated but pro-business

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What's Sunday all about? The rise and fall of California's Sunday closing law. (UC Hastings College of the Law Student Symposium: California Aspects of the Rise and Fall of Legal Liberalism)

Marcus Callaghan has limited artillery but he is is a capable trainer, and Blue Law can strike in the apprentice handicap (5.05).

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Eleven other states have a similar prohibition - or blue law - on Sunday auto sales.

Oregon auto dealers plan to seek a ban on Sunday sales

In 1888, the Blair Sunday-Rest Bill was introduced to Congress and would have made Sunday the national day of rest and religious observance, effectively serving as a national blue law. Seventh Day Baptists, along with other Sabbath-keeping groups, lobbied against the legislation, claiming that the bill was a violation of the separation of church and state.

A rock and a hard place: Seventh Day Baptists, religious liberty, Sabbath-keeping, and civil authority

Within memory we have experienced fair trade restrictions, blue law restrictions and attempts to create a new class of over-the-counter drugs available only where a pharmacy license exists.