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Definition :

Whitsuntide, the east of Pentecost, being the fiftieth day after Easter, and the first of the four cross-quarters days of the year.

Whitsuntide offerings were held assessable to income tax in Slaney v. Starkey, (1931) 2 KB 148.

Whit Monday is, by the 34 & 35 Vict. c. 17, and 38 & 39 Vict. c. 13, made a holiday in banks, custom-houses, docks, inland revenue offices, and bonding-warehouses. Whit Monday is a holiday in the several courts and offices of the Supreme Court. [(English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII., r. 6]