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Home Dictionary Name: appointed day Page: 4Anniversary 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....
Memorial Day
A day originally May 30 appointed for commemorating by decorating their graves with flowers by patriotic exercises etc the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War 1861 65 in the United States Also called Decoration Day It is a legal holiday in most of the States In the Southern States the Confederate Memorial Day is May 30 in Virginia April 26 in Alabama Florida Georgia and Mississippi May 10 in North Carolina and South Carolina the second Friday in May in Tennessee June 3 in Louisiana...
Decoration Day
a day May 30 originally appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors who fell in the Civil War in the United States now called Memorial Day and established as the last Monday in May and designated as a day for commemorating those who died in all wars of the United States...
Mothers Day
A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness visit tribute or letter The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia who designated the second Sunday in May or for schools the second Friday as the time and a white carnation as the badge...
Adjournment-day
Adjournment-day, a further day appointed by the Judges at the Nisi Prius sittings to try issues in fact which were not then ready for trial. See NOTICE OF TRIAL....
Adjournamentum est ad diem dicere seu diem dare
Adjournamentum est ad diem dicere seu diem dare [Lat.], An adjournment is to appoint a day or to give a day.Adjourn has narrow and restricted meaning as 'refer' , Peter P.O. v. Sara, AIR 2007 Ker 81; Babu Premaranjan v. Superintendent of Police, (2003) 3 KLT 177. [Kerala High Court Act, 1959, s. 3]This refers to Parliament, and distinguishes adjournment from Prorogation....
Payment
Payment, is the act of paying, K.S. Bawa v. Director of Enforcement, (1990) Cr LJ 1068.The payment of money before the day appointed is in law payment at the day; for it cannot, in presumption of law, be any prejudice to him to whom the payment is made to have his money before the time; and it appears by the party's receipt of it, that it is for his own advantage to receive it then, otherwise he would not do it, 5 Rep. 117. See the notes to Cumber v. Wane, (1719) in 1 Smith's L.C.Payment is a recompense for service rendered, Bala Subrahmanya Rajaram v. B.C. Patil, AIR 1958 SC 518 (519): (1958) SCR 1504.(ii) 'Payment' implies gift of money by someone to another. A partition in a H.U.F. can be considered either as 'disposition' or 'conveyance' or 'assign-ment' or 'settlement' or 'delivery' or 'payment' or 'alienation' within the meaning of those words in s. 2 (xxiv) of Gift Tax Act, 1958; Commissioner of Gift Tax v. N.S. Getty Chettiar, AIR 1971 SC 2410: (1972) 1 SCR 736: (1971) 2 SCC 74...
Warrantia diei
Warrantia diei, an ancient writ, where one having a day assigned personally to appear in court to any action, is in the meantime employed in the royal service, so that he cannot come on the day appointed; it was addressed to the justices to this end, that they neither take nor record him in default for that time, Fitz. N.B. 17...
Placitum nominatum
Placitum nominatum, the day appointed for a criminal to appear and plead and make his defence, Leg. H. 1, c. 29. Placitum fractum, when the day is past....
Royal Assent
Royal Assent. The act by which the Crown agrees to a bill which has already passed both Houses is called 'The Royal Assent,' which may be given by the sovereign in person in the House of Lords, the Commons standing at the bar; or by the Commissioners appointed by the Crown, under the Declaratory Act (33 Hen. 8, c. 21), for that special purpose and for the single occasion. The forms observed in both cases do not vary, and are as follows: The Lords being assembled in their own House, the Sovereign or the Commissioners seated, and the Commons at the bar, the titles of the several bills which have passed both Houses are read, and the king's or queen's answer is declared by the Clerk of the Parliaments in Norman-French. To a bill of supply, the assent is given in the following words: 'Le roy (or, la reyne) remercie ses loyaux sujets, accepte leur benevolence et ainsi le veult.' To a privte bill it is thus declared: 'Soit fait comme il est desire.' And to public general bills it is given in ...
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