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Vacation. By Ord. LXIII., r. 4, it is provided that 'the vacations to be observed in the several courts and offices of the Supreme Court shall be four in every year-viz., Long vacation, Christmas vacation, Easter vacation, and Whitsun vacation.' See LONG VACATION.

The country courts are, by s. 39 of the County Courts Act, 1934, as a rule, wholly closed during the month of September.

1. The act of vacating 2. The period between the term of court and beginning of next; the space of time during which a court holds no sessions, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1546.