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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....
Vacation
Vacation. By Ord. LXIII., r. 4, it is provided that 'the vacations to be observed in the several courts and offices of the Supreme Court shall be four in every year-viz., Long vacation, Christmas vacation, Easter vacation, and Whitsun vacation.' See LONG VACATION.The country courts are, by s. 39 of the County Courts Act, 1934, as a rule, wholly closed during the month of September.1. The act of vacating 2. The period between the term of court and beginning of next; the space of time during which a court holds no sessions, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1546....
Easter term
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....
Vacation, eviction
Vacation, eviction, eviction requires vacation of the land and vacation does not mean that anything done upon the land which was unauthorised is to be allowed to remain and only the person responsible for doing the unlawful act is to be removed from the land. The words 'eviction' and 'vacation' do not mean mere physical removal of the occupant is clear from the very nature of the right which the respondent in the present case had. His right was confined to the use and occupation of the land for the purpose for which he held it from Government, i.e., for agricultural purposes and when he is evicted and is asked to vacate the land, it must mean that his rights come to an end. For the purpose of vacation it is necessary that any unauthorised construction put up must also be removed otherwise there cannot be any vacation of the land nor can the land be put to effective use for the purpose for which agricultural lands are normally accepted to be used, State of Bombay v. Fakir Umar Dhanse, A...
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...
Long vacation
Long vacation. By (English) R.S.C. Ord. LXVIII., r. 4 (1), the Long Vacation shall commence on 1st of August and terminate on the day appointed by Order in Council for that purpose. By Order in Council dated 1st March, 1907, the Long Vacation is to commence in August and was to terminate on 11th October. For the year 1935 the Long Vacation terminated on 6th October (Long Vacation (1935) Order, 1935)....
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....
Vacation Schools
Vacation Schools. A local education authority has power under s. 22 of the (English) Education Act, 1922, 'to provide, for children attending a public elementary school vacation schools, vacation classes, play-centres, or other means of recreation during their holidays, or at such other times' as the authority may prescribe....
Vacation Sittings
Vacation Sittings. Under the (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 28 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 54), and R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII. R. 11, two 'vacation judges' of the High Court sit during vacations, for the hearing of such applications as may require to be immediately or promptly heard....
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....
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