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BUSINESS HOURS Definition & Legal Meaning

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Those hours of the day during which, in a given community, commercial, banking, professional, public, or other kinds of business are ordinarily carried on. This phrase is declared to mean not the time during which a principal requires an employee’s services, but the business hours of the community generally. Derosia v. Railroad Co., 18 Minn. 133, (Gil. 119.)

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