Good Friday - Law Dictionary Search Results
Christmas-day
With respect to this, and also to the closing of public-houses, it stands in the same position as Good Friday.
Feasts
day of the year; or (2) movable, such as Easter, which fixes all the rest, as Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Sexagesima, Ascension-day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, etc. The four principal immovable feasts of the year, which are
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.
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Maundy Thursday
The Thursday in Passion week or next before Good Friday
VerbarImproperia
and responses expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual
hot cross bun
A bun or cake marked with a cross of icing and intended to be eaten on Good Friday called also cross bun
Easter
An annual church festival commemorating Christs resurrection and occurring on Sunday the second day after Good Friday It corresponds to the pascha or passover of the Jews and most nations still give it this name
Cross bun
A bun or cake marked with a cross of icing and intended to be eaten on Good Friday also called hot cross bun even when not hot
Magna Carta
conferences between the king and the armed barons opened on Monday, the 15th of June, and closed on Friday, the 19th of June, 1215, being in the seventeenth year of his reign. After the adjustment of preliminaries, … or our bailiffs shall not seize any land or rent for any debt, as long as the present goods and chattels of the debtor do suffice to pay the debt, and the debtor himself be ready to
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