February - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: februarymid February
the middle part of February...
Declaration of war
Declaration of war. The formal announcement by one nation of an intention to treat another nation as an enemy and to commence hostilities, agreed to be necessary by the Hague Convention, 1907. In modern times the future belligerents, generally, are in a state of war before any declaration of war is made. Before this Convention was signed, in the war between Russia and Japan, the Japanese ambassador, on the 6th February, 1904, notified to Russia the rupture of negotiations and the cessation of diplomatic relations, hostile operations were commenced by Japan on the 8th February, and formal declarations of war were not made until the 10th of February by Japan, and 11th February by Russia. The British Declaration of War on Germany was made on the 4th August, 1914, after an ultimatum.The force of a declaration of war is equal to that of an Act of Parliament prohibiting intercourse with the enemy except by the king's license. As an act of State done by virtue of the prerogative it carries wi...
Roman calendar
The calendar of the ancient Romans from which our modern calendars are derived It is said to have consisted originally of ten months Martius Aprilis Maius Junius Quintilis Sextilis September October November and December having a total of 304 days Numa added two months Januarius at the beginning of the year and Februarius at the end making in all 355 days He also ordered an intercalary month Mercedinus to be inserted every second year Later the order of the months was changed so that January should come before February Through abuse of power by the pontiffs to whose care it was committed this calendar fell into confusion It was replaced by the Julian calendar In designating the days of the month the Romans reckoned backward from three fixed points the calends the nones and the ides The calends were always the first day of the month The ides fell on the 15th in March May July Quintilis and October and on the 13th in other months The nones came on the eighth day the ninth counting the id...
Game
Game [fr. gaman, Sax.], all sorts of birds and beasts that are objects of the chase. The term is defined by the Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), as including for the purposes of that Act 'hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor-game, black game, and bustards'; but some of its provisions are directed to trespass in pursuit of woodcocks, snipes, quails, land rails, and coneys.At Common Law game belongs to a tenant and not to a landlord, but leases frequently contain a reservation of the game to the landlord, and before the Game Act, 1831, the right to kill game was restricted to freeholders having 100l. a year freehold, or leaseholders having a 99 years' leasehold of 150l. a year, etc. This Act repeals the (English) Qualification Act of 22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 25, and (after giving the game to landlords in the case of leases made before the Act for less than 21 years-a provision now expired) protects reservations of game by penal provisions. The Act also requires all persons k...
Leap-year
Leap-year, otherwise called bissextile [fr. bis and sextilis (dies)] from its introduction to make up the loss of the six hours by which the course of the sun annually exceeds the 365 days allowed for.Leap-year, which happens every fourth year, thus consists of 366 days instead of 365 by the addition of a day to the 28 days in other years of February. The day thus added was by Julius C'sar appointed to be the day before the 24th of February, which among the Romans was the sixth of the calends, and which on this occasion was reckoned twice, hence the term bissextile....
Peer
Peer, an equal; one of the same rank; a member of the House of Lords, as either Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, or Baron, or Scots or presumably Irish representative peer, although the status of Irish representative peers is apparently undecided owing to the establishment of the Irish Free State. The king cannot create a dignity with a mesne between baron and baronets (Co. Litt. 16, b, Hargrave note 8).A member of the House of Lords cannot become a member of the House of Commons, nor can be vote at an election to that House, Earr Beauchamp v. Madresfield, (1872) LR 8 CP 245, although an Irish non-representative peer (Lord Rendlesham v. Haward, (1873) LR 9 CP 252); but an Irish non-representative peer may, presumably, be elected a member of the House of Commons for any seat in Great Britain. A peer cannot surrender his dignity to the king so as to affect the rights of his descendants therein (The Norfolk Earldom, 1907, AC 10). See Jac. Law Dict.; Co. Litt. 160.Under the rule, established...
Quarter-days
Quarter-days, the days which begin the four quarters of the year, viz., the 25th of March, or Lady-day; the 24th of June, or Midsummer-day; the 29th of September, or Michaelmas-day; and the 25th of December, or Christmas-day. The half-quarter days are February 8, May 9, August 11, and November 11. The Scottish quarter days are February 2, May 15, August 1, and November 11. In Northern Ireland the quarter-days are the same as for England....
Bissextile
Leap year every fourth year in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year 365 d 5 h 48 m 46 s above 365 days But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year which is 11 m 14 s more than the excess of the real year Hence it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400 while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400...
Candlemas
The second day of February on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day...
February
The second month in the year said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa In common years this month contains twenty eight days in the bissextile or leap year it has twenty nine days...
- << Prev.
- Next >>
Sign-up to get more results
Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.
Start Free Trial