Holiday, Or Holyday
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Holiday, or Holyday, a feast day with cessation from labour, as by 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3, all Sundays in the year and also Christmas-day and other days by that Act commanded 'to be kepte holie dayes and none other.'
By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII., r. 6, it is provided that the several offices of the Supreme Court shall be open on every day of the year except Sundays, Good Friday, Monday and Tuesday in Easter-week, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August, Christmas-day and the next following working day, and all days appointed by proclamation to be observed as days of general fast, humiliation, or thanksgiving; and the day appointed to be kept as the King's birthday. See also VACATION.
The Bank Holidays Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 17), provides that Easter Monday, the Monday in Whitsun-week, the first Monday in August, and the 26th day of December, if a week day, shall be kept as bank holidays in England and Ireland, and New Year's day, Christmas-day (or, if either be a Sunday, the following day), Good Friday, the first Monday of May, and the first Monday of August in Scotland; and also that bills of exchange and promissory notes due on bank holidays shall be payable on the following day. And this is further extended to docks, custom houses, Inland Revenue offices, and bonding warehouses, in England and Ireland, by the Holidays Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 13); which Act also, when the 26th of December is a Sunday, makes the 27th a holiday.
By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII., r. 6, it is provided that the several offices of the Supreme Court shall be open on every day of the year except Sundays, Good Friday, Monday and Tuesday in Easter-week, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August, Christmas-day and the next following working day, and all days appointed by proclamation to be observed as days of general fast, humiliation, or thanksgiving; and the day appointed to be kept as the King's birthday. See also VACATION.
The Bank Holidays Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 17), provides that Easter Monday, the Monday in Whitsun-week, the first Monday in August, and the 26th day of December, if a week day, shall be kept as bank holidays in England and Ireland, and New Year's day, Christmas-day (or, if either be a Sunday, the following day), Good Friday, the first Monday of May, and the first Monday of August in Scotland; and also that bills of exchange and promissory notes due on bank holidays shall be payable on the following day. And this is further extended to docks, custom houses, Inland Revenue offices, and bonding warehouses, in England and Ireland, by the Holidays Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 13); which Act also, when the 26th of December is a Sunday, makes the 27th a holiday.
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