blue law
Sunday sales prohibition
A blue law is a regulation restricting activities on Sundays, typically prohibiting commerce or entertainment to enforce religious observance.
Many jurisdictions still have blue laws limiting alcohol sales or requiring businesses to close on Sundays: The blue laws here mean you can't buy liquor before noon on Sunday.
The term extends to any puritanical restriction on behavior.
Authoritative legal ban
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- statuteEnacted written rule
- banOfficial restriction on something
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
restriction · alcohol · curfew · code · penalty · fine · violation · repeal
English Protestant simplifier
- colonialOf occupied territories
- theocracyRule by religious authority
- sumptuaryRegulating personal expenditure
- VictorianOf a prim era
antebellum · temperance · morality · piety · sectarianism · Connecticut · Massachusetts · tradition
Sales to end users
- salesRevenue from goods moved
- shoppingAcquiring goods at retailers
- storefrontRetail facade facing street
- mallEnclosed shopping center
consumer · merchant · vendor · exemption · revenue · competition
prohibition
Authoritative legal ban
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- statuteEnacted written rule
- banOfficial restriction on something
enforcement · restriction · alcohol · curfew · code · penalty · fine · violation · repeal · waiver
Puritan
English Protestant simplifier
- colonialOf occupied territories
- theocracyRule by religious authority
- sumptuaryRegulating personal expenditure
Victorian · antebellum · temperance · morality · piety · sectarianism · Connecticut · Massachusetts · tradition · repeal
retail
Sales to end users
- salesRevenue from goods moved
- shoppingAcquiring goods at retailers
- storefrontRetail facade facing street
mall · consumer · merchant · vendor · exemption · revenue · competition
sabbath
Designated period of repose
quietude · prayer · congregation · sermon · pastor · minister · faith · sacred · devotion · closing
- historical lawattainder, Justinian Code, curtesy, Napoleonic Code, Twelve Tables
- liquor lawsDUI, legal age, public intoxication, alcohol ban, open container
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
- prohibitionsban, forbid, prohibition, forbidden, prohibit
blue lawderegulation
Removing governmental business restrictions
laissez-faire · liberalization · decontrol · Sunday trading · open container law
blue lawsecular law
Legal code without religious basis
separation of church and state · civil law · secularism · disestablishment · First Amendment
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