Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    This term includes all alcoholic beverages made from the juice of the grape by the process of fermentation, and perhaps simllar liquors made from apples and from some species of berries; but not pure alcohol nor distilled liquors nor malt liquors such as beer and ale. See Adler v. State, 55 Ala. 23; Reyfelt v. State, 73 Miss. 415, 18 South. 925; Lemly v. State, 70 Miss. 241, 12 South. 22, 20 L. R. A. 645; Com. v. Reyburg, 122 Pa. 299, 16 Atl. 351, 2 L. R. A. 415; Feldman v. Morrison, 1 III. App. 462; Hinton v. State, 132 Ala. 29, 31 South. 563.