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Easter term, formerly called a movable term, but afterwards fixed, beginning on the 15th of April and ending on the 8th of May in every year. See 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 70, s. 6; see now (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 52, abolishing terms, s. 53, with power to regulate vacations....
Terms
Terms, the periods during which the superior courts at Westminster were open.The legal year consists of four terms: Michaelmas, Hilary, Easter, and Trinity (which see), the year beginning with Michaelmas Term.The commencement and duration of the terms were fixed by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 70, s. 6, and 1 Wm. 4, c. 3, s. 3. By the first of these enactments Hilary Term began on the 11th and ended on the 31st of January; Easter Term began on the 15th of April and ended on the 8th of May; Trinity Term began on the 22nd of May and ended on the 12th of June; and Michaelmas Term began on the 2nd and ended on the 25th of November. Vacations in the Equity Courts were regulated also by Cons. Ord. V.By the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 26, now repealed, it was provided that the division of the legal year into terms should be abolished so far as relates to the administration of justice. But in all other cases in which, under the law previously existing, the terms into which the legal year is ...
Easter sittings
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....
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....
Rolls of the temple
Rolls of the temple. In the two Temples was a roll called the Calves-head Roll, wherein every bencher, barrister, and student, was taxed yearly at so much to the cook and other offices of the houses, in consideration of a dinner of calves-head, provided in Easter term, Orig. Jurid. 199....
Easter lily
Any one of various lilies or lilylike flowers which bloom about Easter...
Easterly
Coming from the east as it was easterly wind...
Attendant term
Attendant term. Terms for years in real property are created for many purposes, e.g., to furnish money for the payment of debts, to secure rent charges or jointures, to raise portions for younger children, daughters, etc. Now, although the purpose for which the term was originally created has been satisfied or has failed, yet, not being surrendered, it continued to exit, the legal interest remaining in the trustees, to whom it was at its creation limited, or, if deceased, in their personal representatives; but the person entitled to the inheritance then became, according to equitable principle, entitled to the beneficial interest in such term, and the term or was held to be such person's trustee. This beneficial interest was subordinate to and merely attendant upon the higher estate possessed by the owner of the inheritance, and yet completely consolidated with it, following the inheritance in all the various modifications and changes to which it might be subjected by act of law or arr...
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