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Christmas
Matched in: Term Christmas
Christmas-day
Matched in: Term Christmas-day
Night Before Christmas
Matched in: Term Night Before Christmas
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Holiday, or Holyday
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,
Boxing day
The first week day after Christmas a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen errand boys employees etc The night of
Bowling, game of
at husbandry,' fishermen, and others named therein, might not play bowls or other games named therein 'out of Christmas,' and 'in Christmas only in their masters' houses or in their masters' presence.'
Business day
the (English) Bills of Exchange Act,1882, s. 92 provides that any day other than (a) Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day, (b) a bank holiday, (c) a day appointed by royal proclamation as a public fast or thanksgiving,
Days of grace
the last day of grace,' with a proviso that where the last day of grace falls on Sunday, Christmas Day, or Good Friday, or a public fast or thanksgiving day, the bill is payable on the preceding
Feasts
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.
Obsolete
and Gaming'), by which labourers and others are forbidden to play cards or other specified games 'out of Christmas,' but allowed to play them in Christmas in their masters' houses and in their masters' presence; and that
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