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Christmas-day, a festival of the Christian Church observed on the 25th of December, in memory of the birth of Jesus Christ. It is one of the usual quarter-days for the payment of rent and salaries; it is also a day on which the offices of the Supreme Court are closed (R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII., r. 6), and it is not reckoned in the computation of time where less than six days is limited for doing anything by a rule of the Supreme Court (Ord. XLIV., r. 2). With respect to this, and also to the closing of public-houses, it stands in the same position as Good Friday....
Days of grace
Days of grace. Time of indulgence granted to an acceptor for the payment of his bill of exchange. It was originally a gratuitous favour (hence the name), but custom has rendered it a legal right.The number of these days varies according to the ancient custom or express law prevailing in each particular country. In the (English) United Kingdom, by the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 61), s. 14, 'where a bill' (i.e., a bill of exchange or promissory note) 'is not payable on demand, the day on which it falls due is determined as follows:-Three days, called days of grace, are, in every case where the bill itself does not otherwise provide, added to the time of payment as fixed by the bill, and the bill is due and payable on 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 business day, or on the succeeding business day if the last d...
Business day
Business day, For the purposes of 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, is a business day.Business day means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday in any part of Great Britain; Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 8(1), 4th Edn., Para 1294, p. 1009....
Quarter-days
Quarter-days, the days which begin the four quarters of the year, viz., the 25th of March, or Lady-day; the 24th of June, or Midsummer-day; the 29th of September, or Michaelmas-day; and the 25th of December, or Christmas-day. The half-quarter days are February 8, May 9, August 11, and November 11. The Scottish quarter days are February 2, May 15, August 1, and November 11. In Northern Ireland the quarter-days are the same as for England....
Fast-day
Fast-day, a day of mortification by religious ab-stinence. See a list of Church of England Fast-days in the Prayer-book Calendar Scheduled to the (English) Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 3, c. 23), and see also the still unrepealed 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3 (printed in the second revised edition of the statutes published by authority in 1888), by which the eves of Christmas Day and other holy days are 'commanded to be fasted,' and arch-bishops, bishops and others are authorized to inquire of every person offending in the premises, and to punish offenders by the censures of the Church, and to enjoin them such penance as shall be to the spiritual judge by his discretion thought meet and convenient. 2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 19, however, providing for abstinence from flesh in Lent or on Fridays or Saturdays, which was expressly saved by s. 4 of this Act, has been repealed by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64, with many other disused Acts.Fast-days may also be appointed on special occasions by royal proclamati...
Holiday, or Holyday
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 da...
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...
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 this day is boxing night...
Sunday
Sunday [fr. sunnan daeg, Sax., the day of the sun], the first day of the week, the Lord's Day, termed in the Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (29 Car. 2, c. 7, infra), 'the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday.' It is a dies non juridicus, but an arrest for crime can be effected on this day; and bail can arrest their principal, and a sergeant-at-arms can apprehend; but no other law proceedings can be taken. By the Sunday Observance Act, 1677, it is enacted that:-No tradesmen, artificers, workmen, labourers, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business, or work of their ordinary callings [barbers are not within the enactment: Palmer v. Snow, (1900) 1 QB 725] upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted).The (English) Hairdressers and Barbers Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 35), prohibits opening on Sundays (Jewish hairdressers may open on Sunday but must close on Saturday).The (English) Shops (Sunday...
Good Friday
Good Friday. The Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 92, consolidating 39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 42, passed for the better observance of Good Friday, and 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 15, provides that Good Friday and Christmas Day are to be excluded as 'non-business days' in cases where the time limited by that Act for doing any act or thing is less than three days; and also, by s. 14, that where the last of the three 'days of grace' (see GRACE DAY OF) falls on Good Friday, a bill of exchange shall be payable on the preceding business day. Good Friday is a holiday in the Courts and offices of the Supreme Court (R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII., r. 4), and is not reckoned in the computation of limited time (less than six days) for the purposes of the Rules, (ibid., Ord. LXIV., r. 2), or of limited time, not exceeding seven days, for the purposes of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, by s. 230 of that Act, which also allows acts to be done on the day after Good Friday instead of on Good Friday. Houses where intoxic...
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