Maine

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Maine \Maine\ (m[=a]n), prop. n.
     One of the New England States.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Maine law}, any law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
        intoxicating beverages, esp. one resembling that enacted


        in the State of Maine. At present, the state of Maine
        sells such beverages in its own stores.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Maine
       n : a state in New England [syn: {Pine Tree State}, {ME}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MAINE. One of the new states of the United State's of America. This state 
  was admitted into the Union by the Act of Congress of March 3, 1820, 3 
  Story's L. U. S. 1761, from and after the fifteenth day of March, 1820, and 
  is thereby declared to be one of the United States of America, and admitted 
  into the Union on an equal footing with the original states in all respects 
  whatever. 
       2. The constitution of this state was adopted October 29th, 1819. The 
  powers of the government are vested in three distinct departments, the 
  legislative, executive and judicial. 
       3.-1. The legislative power is vested in two distinct branches, a 
  house of representatives and senate, each to have a negative on the other, 
  and both to be styled The legislature of Maine. 1. The house of 
  representatives is to consist of not less than one hundred, nor more than 
  two hundred members; to be apportioned among the counties according to law; 
  to be elected by the qualified electors for one year from the next day 
  preceding the annual meeting of the legislature. 2. The senate consists of 
  not less than twenty, nor more than thirty-one members, elected at the same 
  time, and for the same term, as the representatives, by the qualified 
  electors of the districts into which the state shall, from time to time, be 
  divided. Art. 4, part 2, s. 1. The veto power is given to the governor, by 
  art. 4, part 3, s. 2. 
       4.-2. The supreme executive power of the state is vested in a 
  governor, who is elected by the qualified electors, and holds his office one 
  year from the first Wednesday of January in each year. On the first 
  Wednesday of January annually, seven persons, citizens of the United States, 
  and resident within the state, are to be elected by joint ballot of the 
  senators and representatives in convention, who are called the council. This 
  council is to advise the governor in the executive part of government, art. 
  5, part 2, s. 1 and 2. 
       5.-3. The judicial power of the State is distributed by the 6th 
  article of the constitution as follows: 
       6.-1. The judicial power of this state shall be vested in a supreme 
  judicial court, and such other courts as the legislature shall, from time to 
  time, establish. 
       7.-2. The justices of the supreme judicial court shall, at stated 
  times, receive a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their 
  continuance in office, but they shall receive no other fee or reward. 
       8.-3. They shall be obliged to give their opinion upon important 
  questions of law, and upon solemn occasions, when required by the governor, 
  council, senate, or house of representatives. 
       9.-4. All judicial officers; except justices of the peace, shall hold 
  their offices during good behaviour, but not beyond the age of seventy 
  years. 
      10.-5. Justices of the peace and notaries public shall hold their 
  offices during seven years, if they so long behave themselves well, at the 
  expiration of which term, they may be re-appointed, or others appointed, as 
  the public interest may require. 
      11.-6. The justices of the supreme judicial court shall bold no office 
  under the United States, nor any state, nor any other office under this 
  state, except that of justice of the peace. 
       For a history of the province of Maine, see 1 Story on the Const. Sec. 
  82. 
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Maine, NY
    Zip code(s): 13802