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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...
Clausum pasch'
Clausum pasch', the morrow of the utas (or eight days) of Easter; the end of Easter; the Sunday after Easter-day, 2 Inst. 157.
Japan current
the Pacific washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific called also Kuro Siwo or Black Stream in allusion to the deep blue
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Offices of the Supreme Court
Offices of the Supreme Court. The offices of the Supreme Court are to be open every day except Sundays, Good Friday, Easter Eve, Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week, White Monday, the first Monday in August,...
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...
Offerings
Offerings, personal tithes, payable by custom to the parson or vicar of a parish, either occasionally, as at sacraments, marriages, churching of women, burials, etc.; or at constant times, as at Easter, Christmas, etc, 2 &...
Oblations
Oblations, offerings to God and the Church, fees payable to the clergy for marrying, burying, and by way of 'Easter offerings.' See Reg. v. Hall, (1866) LR 1 QB 632. (Those things are called oblations which...
Excommunication
Excommunication, an ecclesiastical interdict or censure, divided into the greater and the lesser; by the greater a person was excluded from the communion of the church and the company of the faithful, and was rendered incapable...
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...
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...
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