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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....
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...
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...
Bowling, game of
Bowling, game of, legalized by the Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109) (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games and Gaming'), s. 1 of which repeals 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, which Act by s. 16 decreed that labourers, 'servants 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
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....
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...
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...
Obsolete
Obsolete, invalid by virtue of discontinuance, said of a law or practice which has ceased to be enforced or be in use by reason of change of manners and circumstances, as 'wager or battel' (see BATTEL, WAGER OF), the punishment of the stocks (see STOCKS), the provision of the Gaming Act of Henry VIII. (33 Hen. 8, c. 9) (Revised Statutes, 2nd Edn., vol. i. p. 378, published in 1888; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games 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 of 1285 in the Stat. Westm. Sec., 13 Edw. 1, c. 34, by which elopement with a nun from her convent, although the nun consent, is punishable by three years' imprisonment and fine. For further instances, see the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 49); and see also STATUTE LAW REVISION. But however absurd and, in common language, obsolete an En...
Christmas
An annual church festival December 25 and in some States a legal holiday in memory of the birth of Christ often celebrated by a particular church service and also by special gifts greetings and hospitality...
Christmastide
The season of Christmas...
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