Blue Laws
(n) Blue Laws are the law which prohibits certain activities on specified occasions connected with the moral and social beliefs without prohibiting the activity altogether or maintaining a total bar.
BLUE LAWS - A name applied to certain laws, originally in force in the New England states, which were extremely rigorous.
blue laws Any laws prohibiting racetrack betting, athletic contests, the opening of stores and theaters on Sunday, or any other activities usually regulated by individual conscience.
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Blue Laws Laws forbidding trade on Sunday, allegedly so-named because early Puritans published them on blue paper. Blue laws survived into the 20th Century in many states.
: a statute regulating work, commerce, and amusements on Sunday
Existing blue laws derive from the numerous extremely rigorous laws designed to regulate morals and conduct that were enacted in colonial New England.
It infected America in the late 1600s, Salem, Massachussets in particular, where the indictment read of a suspected witch, and taken from The Blue Laws of New Haven Colony, 1838: ...
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