Pertaining to polite learning ; connected with the study or use of books and writings. The word “literary,” having no legal signification , is to be taken in its ordinary and usual meaning. We speak of literary persons as learned, erudite; of literary property , as the productions of ripe scholars, or, at least, of professional writers; of literary institutions, as those where the positive sciences are taught, or persons eminent for learning associate, for purposes connected with their professions. This we think the popular meaning of the word; and that it would not be properly used as descriptive of a school for the instruction of youth. Indianapolis v. McLean, 8 Ind. 332.
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