MARKET. A public place and appointed time for buying and selling. A public place, appointed by public authority, where all sorts of things necessary for the subsistence or for the convenience of life are sold. All fairs are markets, but not vice versa; Bract. 1. 2, c. 21; Co. Litt. 22 ; Co. 2d Inst. 401; Co. 4th Inst. 272. Markets are generally regulated by local laws. A city may estab lish public markets and confine the sale of commodities therein, where the regulations are reasonable and in consideration of pub lie health ; Ex parte Byrd, 84 Ala. 17, 4 South. 397, 5 Am. St. Rep. 328; Trustees of Rochester v. Pettinger, 17 Wend. (N. Y.) 265 ; State v. Garibaldi, 44 La. Ann. 809, 11 South. 36; State v. Leiber, 11 Ia. 407; and ordinances are valid, prohibiting sales in markets by non-producers without license ; Pi. re Nightingale, 11 Pick. (Mass.) 168 ; re quiring a small fee for stalls ; City of Cin cinnati v. Buckingham, 10 Ohio 257 ; pro hibiting produce wagons from standing with in the limits of a market; Com. v. Brooks,
109 Mass. 355 ; or the keeping a private market within six squares of a public market {where the ordinance was authorized by statute) ; State v. Natal, 41 La. Ann. 887, 6 South. 722 ; Natal v. Louisiana, 139 U. S. 621, 11 Sup. Ct. 636, 35 L. Ed. 288; and pro hibiting the sale of specified provisions except at a public market ; Newson v. City of Gal veston, 76 Tex. 559, 13 S. W. 368, 7 L. R. A. 797; City of St. Louis v. Weber, 44 Mo. 549; Village of Buffalo v. Webster, 10 Wend. (N. Y.) 100 ; State T. Pendergrass, 106 N. C. 664, 10 S. E. 1002 ; Ash v. People, 11 Mich. 347, 83 Am. Dec. 740; Badkins v. Robinson, 53 Ga. 613. See 24 L. R. A. 584, note.
The franchise in England by which a town holds a market, which can only be by royal grant or immemorial usage.
By the term market is also understood the demand there is for any particular ar ticle : as, the cotton market in Europe is dull. See 15 Viner, Abr. 41; Com. Dig.