In English law. The term includes all buildings and premises wherein, or within the close or curtilage of which, steam, water, or any mechanical power is used to move or work any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing, or finishing cotton, wool, hair, silk, flax, hemp, jute, or tow. So defined by the statute 7 Vict, c 15, 5 73. By later acts this definition has been extended to various other manufacturing places. Mozley & Whitley.
Also a place where a considerable number of factors reside, in order to negotiate for their masters or employers. Enc. Brit
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In American law. The word “factory” does not necessarily mean a single building or edifice, but may apply to several, where they are used in connection with each other, for a common purpose, and stand together in the same inclosure. Liebenstein v. Insurance Co., 45 111. 303. And see Insurance Co. v. Brock, 57 Pa. 82; Hernischel v. Texas Drug Co., 26 Tex. Civ. App. 1, 61 S. W. 419; Schott v. Harvey, 105 Pa. 227, 51 Am. Rep. 201.
In Scotch law. This name is given to a species of contract or employment which falls under the general designation of “agency,” but which partakes both of the nature of a mandate and of a bailment of the kind called “locatio ad operandum” 1 Bell, Comm. 259. Factory prices. The prices at which goods may be bought at the factories, as distinguished from the prices of goods bought in the market after they have passed into the hands of third persons or shop-keepers. Whipple v. Levett, 2 Mason, 90, Fed. Cas. No. 17,518.
Facts cannot lie. 18 How. State Tr. 1187; 17 How. State Tr. 1430.