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Easter sittings of the Court of Appeal and High Court of Justice commence on the Tuesday after Easter week, and terminate on the Friday before Whitsunday (R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII., r. 1), as amended, 1935.A term of court beginning on April 15 of each year and usu. ending on May 8, but sometimes extended to May 13, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 529....
Sittings
Sittings. By the Judicature Act, 1873, s. 26, the division of the legal year into terms is abolished, and sittings are substituted for it. See now (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII.The sittings of the Court of Appeal and High Court of Justice in London and Middlesex are four in every year, viz., the Michaelmas sittings, the Hilary sittings, the Easter sittings, and the Trinity sittings. The Michaelmas sittings commence on the day appointed by Order in Council (Long Vacation Order, 1935, 12th October; Long Vacation Order, 1936, 12th October), and terminate on the 21st of December; the Hilary sittings commence on the 11th of January and terminate on the Wednesday before Easter; the Easter sittings commence on the Tuesday after Easter week and terminate on the Friday before Whit-Sunday; and the Trinity sittings commence on the Tuesday after Whitsun-week and terminate on the 31st of July (R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII).It is also provided by the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 52 (replacing t...
Hilary Sittings
Hilary Sittings. These take the place, since the Judicature Act, of Hilary Term, beginning on the 11th of January, and terminating on the Wednesday before Easter; see R.S.C. Ord. LXIII., r. 1. It was so called from Hilary, Biship of Poictiers, in France, a great champion of the Catholic faith against the Arians in the fourth century (see Gibbon, Dec. and Fall, c. xxi.). By the Judicature Act, 1873, s. 26 (now obsolete), 'the division of the legal year into terms was abolished, so far as relates to the administration of justice.' See SITTINGS; TERMS.In England, a term of court beginning on January, 11 of each year and ending on Wednesday before Easter, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 735....
Easter offerings, or Easter dues
Easter offerings, or Easter dues, small sums of money paid to the parochial clergy by the parishio-ners of Easter as a compensation for personal tithes, or the tithe for personal labour; recoverable under 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 6, before justices of the peace, see Reg. v. Hall, (1868) LR 1 QB 632. In that case the vicar of Batley in Yorkshire was held entitled to recover, on evidence of a custom, for every communicant, 2d.; every cow, 2d.; every plough, 2d.; every foal, 1s.; every hive of bees, 1d.; every house, 3-1/2d.; and the question whether a payment of 2d. per head for every member of a family of or above the age of sixteen was left open. A Rubric at the end of the Communion Service of the Prayer Book to the effect that 'yearly at Easter every Parishioner shall reckon with the Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or his or their Deputy or Deputies, and pay to them or him all Ecclesiastical Duties accustomably due, then and at that time to be paid,' probably refers to such specific payments as thos...
Easter
Easter [fr. Ostern, Ger., supposed to be derived from the name of the Teutonic goddess Ostera (oster, to rise), celebrated by the ancient Saxons early in the spring], a movable feast of the church, held in memory of our Saviour's resurrection.Easter Day, on which all the other movable feasts and holy days of the Church depend, is always the first Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after, the twenty-first day of March; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after, Book of Common Prayer.Easter Monday is made a Bank Holiday by (English) 34 & 35 Vict. c. 17, and 38 & 39 Vict. c. 13....
Easter vacation
Easter vacation in the Supreme Court commences on Good Friday and terminates on Easter Tuesday [(English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII., r. 4]. See VACATION....
Sitting
Sitting, a secret sitting of the House may be held on a request from the leader of the House, the Speaker may fix a day or part thereof for such a sitting, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha 10th Edn., 2002, r. 248 (Lok Sabha).Sitting, is the time during which a legislative House site continuously, Webster American Dictionary, p. 1364.Sitting, quorum to constitute a sitting of the House is one-tenth of the total number of members of the House. [Constitution of India, Art. 100(3)]...
Banc (or Banco), sittings in
Banc (or Banco), sittings in [fr. bancus, Lat., a seat or bench of justice. Thus Bancus Regin' or Bank la Reine is the Queen's Bench; Bancus communium Placitorum, or Bench le Common Pleas, is the Court of Common Pleas, or the Common Bench], the sittings of a Superior Court of Common Law as a full court as distinguished from the sittings of the judges at Nisi Prius or on circuit. Such sittings might be held out of term as well as in term (1 & 2 Vict. c.32, s. 2, and (English) C.L.P. Act, 1854, s. 95). The business of the courts in banc was transferred to Divisional Courts of the High Court of Justice [(English) Jud. Act, 1873, ss. 40, 41]. See now (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 63. See DIVISIONAL COURT....
While so sitting and acting
While so sitting and acting, the words 'while so sitting and acting' in Article 224-A do not contemplate that the person requested has the powers, privileges and jurisdiction only when he sits in court during hours. The effect of those words is that during the period for which a person has been requested to sit and act as a Judge of the High Court, he has the jurisdiction, powers and privileges of a judge of that Court, Krishan Gopal v. Prakashchandra, AIR 1974 SC 209: (1974) 1 SCC 128: (1974) 2 SCR 206. (Constitution of India, Art. 224A)...
Easter lily
Any one of various lilies or lilylike flowers which bloom about Easter...
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