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Anniversary days
Anniversary days, solemn days appointed to be celebrated yearly in commemoration of the death of a saint or other event.The death of Charles I., 30th January, the Restoration of Charles II., 29th May, and the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, November 5th, gave rise to 'anniversaries' and special church services, abolished by 22 Vict. c. 2. The anniversary of the accession of the sovereign is still observed by an Accession Service, and the signing of the Armistice on the 11th November, 1918, by Remembrance Day....
Feasts
Feasts, anniversary days of rejoining, either on a civil or religious occasion; opposed to fasts. Our feasts are either (1) immovable, such as Christmas-day, the Circumcision, Epiphany, Candlemas-day, Lady-day, All Saints, and All Souls, besides the days of the several apostles, St. Peter, St. Thomas, etc.: these are always celebrated on the same day of the year; or (2) movable, such as Easter,which fixes all the rest, as Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Sexagesima, Ascension-day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, etc. The four principal immovable feasts of the year, which are commonly assigned in England for the payment of rents on leases, are the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Lady-day, being the 25th of March; the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, held on the 24th of June; the feast of St. Michael on the 29th of September; and Christmas-day on the 25th of December.A still unrepealed Act of 1551-2 (5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3), directs certain days therein mentioned (being all S...
Fraction of a day
Fraction of a day, the law does not recognize, except in cass of necessity and for the purposes of justice, see Clarke v. Bradlaugh, (1881) 8 QBD 63; when, therefore, a thing's to be done upon a certain day, all that day is allowed to do it in, Gelmini v. Moriggia, (1913) 2 KB 552. An Act of Parliament becomes law as soon as the day on which it is passed commences, Tomlinson v. Bulock, (1879) 4 QBD 230, unless the commencement be expressly postponed; and every minor comes of age on the day proceeding the twenty-first anniversary of his birthday, and may act as of full age the first moment of that day....
Holiday
A consecrated day religious anniversary a day set apart in honor of some person or in commemoration of some event See Holyday...
Festi val
A time of feasting or celebration an anniversary day of joy civil or religious...
Majority
Majority. 1. The full age of 21 years; a minor comes of age in the eye of the law on the day preceding the anniversary of his birth. 2. The grater number. In a deliberative body, questions are ordinarily decided by a majority of those present at a meeting and voting, provided that the whole number present be not less than a certain quorum (see QUORUM) of the whole body. See, e.g., Local Government Act, 1933, s. 75, and Parts I. to V. of the Third Schedule thereto. See MEETING, and as to restrictions upon the powers of a company exercised by a majority in general meeting, see Re Hoare & Co. Ltd., 150 LT 374....
immigration marriage fraud amendments of 1986
immigration marriage fraud amendments of 1986 Public Law 99-639 (Act of 11/10/86), which was passed in order to deter immigration-related marriage fraud. Its major provision stipulates that aliens deriving their immigrant status based on a marriage of less than two years are conditional immigrants. To remove their conditional status the immigrants must apply at an U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office during the 90-day period before their second-year anniversary of receiving conditional status. If the aliens cannot show that the marriage through which the status was obtained was and is a valid one, their conditional immigrant status may be terminated and they may become deportable. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Age
Age, the criminal responsibility of males and females, and their power to do certain acts, depends upon their age. A child under 7 cannot commit any offence; between the ages of 7 and 14 is presumed to be doli incapax, but this presumption may be rebutted by evidence of the infant's capacity to discern good from evil (malitia supplet 'tatem-malice supplies age). The old rule in criminal matters was that a person of the age of 14 might be capitally punished for any capital offence, but under the age of 7 he could not. A male under the age of 14 years is presumed impotent as well as doli incapax, and since the presumption of impotence cannot be rebutted, R. v. Phillips, 8 C& P 736, he cannot be convicted of an offence involving carnal knowledge, except as a principal in the second degree in a rape, or the like, where if he has a mischievous discretion, the presumption of impotence will not excuse him from aiding and assisting in the commission of the offence. He may, it seems, be convict...
Campus maii
Campus maii, an anniversary assembly of our ancestors, held on May-day, when they confederated for the general defence of the kingdom, Leges Edw. Conf., c. 35....
Dominion Day
In Canada a legal holiday July lst being the anniversary of the proclamation of the formation of the Dominion in 1867...
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