Legal Definition and Related Resources of Bootlegger
Meaning of Bootlegger
Synonyms of Bootlegger
noun
- black marketeer
- contrabandist
- gunrunner
- illicit dealer
- moonshiner
- runner
- smuggler
- Associated Concepts: prohibition
- sale of intoxicating liquor
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Bootlegger in Historical Law
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What does Bootlegger mean in American Law?
The definition of Bootlegger in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
During Prohibition, one in the illegal business of making or selling alcoholic beverages. Now sometimes used to describe people who smuggle goods from low tax states to evade a locally higher tax, e.g., “cigarette bootleggers” from North Carolina to New York.
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