Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

dram-shop act

A statute allowing a plaintiff to recover damages from a commercial seller of alcoholic beverages for the plaintiff's injuries caused by a customer's intoxication. - Also termed civil-liability act. "Largely at the behest of the temperance movement, statutes (called dram shop acts') were enacted in many states which imposed some form of civil liability on those engaged in the business of selling such beverages in favor of third persons injured thereby . . . . At one time, almost half the states had such laws; today,