...provision of The Lord's Day Act enacting that " no tradesman, artificer, workman, laborer or other person whatsoever, shall do or exercise any worldly labor, business or work of their ordinary labor on the Lord's Day," and it was held that a driver of a stage coach was not within it. In Reg....

...tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work of their ordinary callings upon the...part thereof (works of necessity and charity only 71 JP 62. excepted) and that every person being of the age of fourteen years or upwards offending in...

...BRUXER r. MOORE, [1904] 1 Ch. 305 ; 73 LJ [Ch. 377 ; 52 WK 295 ; 89 LT 738 ; 20 TLR 125— Farwell, J. or work of their ordinary callings upon the Lord's...thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted)." HELD — that a barber and hairdresser is not included under the terms of the Act PALMER v. SNOW. [1900]...

...hundred years since Great Britain put on her statute books a law that no persons should do any work in their ordinary callings upon the Lord's Day or any part thereof,, works of necessity or charity only excepted. This is yet the basis of British and American Sunday laws. The physical and...

...statutes are based on "the Lord's Day Act" of England. The English statute provides that persons shall not do or exercise any worldly labor, business or work...thereof, works of necessity and charity only excepted. While the statutes of the different states differ in details, they are based upon the English statutes....

...contrary to the Statute of 29 Car. II, chapter 7, which provides that "no tradesman or other person shall do or exercise any worldly labor, business or work of their ordinary calling on the Lord's Day, works of necessity and charity only excepted": Crepps v. Burden, 2 Cowp....

...country. It provided that no craftsman, artificer, workman, laborer, or other person whatsoever should do or exercise any worldly labor, business, or work...or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity excepted) and placed prohibitions upon public sales on the Lord's day. Fairs were prohibited in the...

...artificer, workman, laborer, or other person whatsoever, shall do or exercise any worldly labor or business or work of their ordinary callings upon the...of necessity and charity only excepted), and that every person being of the T>egradat!in and universality of sunworship. 1 Sun-worship has ever been...

...tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work of their ordinary callings upon the...thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted)" — then follows a penalty : "And that no person or persons whatsoever shall publicly cry, shew forth...

...workman, labourer or other person (ejusdcm generis) whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work of their ordinary callings upon the...part thereof (works of necessity and charity only exccpted) ; and every person being of the age of fourteen years or upwards offending in the premises...