1. Intoxicating Liquors @=>2%, New, vol. 8A Key-No. Series — Constitu- ■ tional Law — Prohibition During War Time.

Congress has constitutional power to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors during war.

2. Intoxicating Liquors @=>134 — War-Time Prohibition — Liquors Prohibited.

Act Nov. 21, 1918, providing that no beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors shall be manufactured or sold during continuance of the war, etc., refers only to Intoxicating beer and wine.

3. 'Statutes @=>193 — Construction—“Noscitur a Sociis.”

Under the doctrine “noscitur a sociis” the meaning of doubtful words may be ascertained by referring to the meaning of associated words.

[Ed. Note. — For other definitions, see Words and Phrases, First and Second Series, Noscitur a Sociis.]

4. Statutes @=>194 — Construction—“Ejusdem Generis.”

The doctrine of “ejusdem generis” means that general and specific words capable of an analogous meaning take color from each other, so that the general words are restricted to a sense analogous to the less general; citing Words and Phrases, First and Second Series, Ejusdem Generis.

5. Intoxicating Liquors @=>134 — War-Time Prohibition — “Intoxicating Liquor.”

The term “intoxicating liquor,” as used in War-Time Prohibition Act Nov. 21, 1918, means any liquor, intended or capable of being used as a beverage, containing a proportion of alcohol which will produce intoxication when the beverage is taken in such quantities as it is practically possible for a man to drink.

[Ed. Note. — For other definitions, see Words and Phrases, First and Second Series, Intoxicating Liquor.]

6. Intoxicating Liquors @=>216 — Information—Sufficiency.

' An information under War-Time Prohibition Act Nov. 21, 1918, is fatally defective for failure to allege that the beer sold was in fact intoxicating.

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