Half Holiday - Law Dictionary Search Results
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a day on which half of the day is free from work or duty a holiday of one half of a day...
Shop
Shop, a place where thins are kept for sale, usually in small quantities, to the actual consumers. By (English) Shops Act, 1912, s. 19, 'shop' includes any premises where any 'retail trade or business' is carried on; 'retail trade or business' includes the business of a barber or hairdresser, but not the sale of programmes, etc., at places of amusement.A business establishment or place of employment; a factory, office, or other place of business, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1384.The (English) Shops Act, 1934, deals with the employment of persons under eighteen years, repealing s. 2 of the (English) Shops Act, 1912; but the other provisions are unaffected. The 1934 Act, s. 1, provides that no young person (under eighteen) shall be employed for more than the normal maximum working hours, that is, forty-eight hours in any week; it makes restrictions on right employment, has special provisions as to the catering trade, the sale of accessories for Aircraft, motor vehicles and cycle...
Dies festi, nefasti, et intercisi
Dies festi, nefasti, et intercisi (businessdays, holidays, and half-holidays).For the purpose of the administration of justice all days were divided by the Romans into fasti and nefasti. Dies fasti were the days on which the pr'tor was allowed to administer justice in the public courts; they derived their names from fari (fari tria verba, do, dico, addico, Ovid, Fast. I. 45, etc. 'Varro, De Ling. Lat. vi. 29, 30, edit. Muller; Macrob., Sat. i. 16). On some of the dies fasti comitia could be held, but not on all, Cic., pro Sect. 15, with the note of Manutius.Dies nefasti were days on which neither courts of justice nor comitia were allowed to be held, and which were dedicated to other purposes. Accord-ing to the ancient legends, they were said to have been fixed by Numa Pompilius, Liv. I. 19. One part of a day might be fastus, while another was nefastus, Ovid, Fast. i. 50....
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 kepte holie dayes and none other.'By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII., r. 6, it is provided that the several offices of the Supreme Court shall be open on every day of the year except Sundays, Good Friday, Monday and Tuesday in Easter-week, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August, Christmas-day and the next following working day, and all days appointed by proclamation to be observed as days of general fast, humiliation, or thanksgiving; and the day appointed to be kept as the King's birthday. See also VACATION.The Bank Holidays Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 17), provides that Easter Monday, the Monday in Whitsun-week, the first Monday in August, and the 26th day of December, if a week day, shall be kept as bank holidays in England and Ireland, and New Year's day, Christmas-day (or, if either be a Sunday, the following da...
Bank holidays
Bank holidays. Easter Monday, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August, and the 26th December if a weekday, or if it is a Sunday the 27th, or any day appointed by Order in Council in place of one of these, and any day appointed by Royal Proclama-tion in addition to these, is a statutory bank holiday in England, 34 & 35 Vict. c.17; 38 & 39 Vict. c. 13; 45 & 46 Vict. c. 61. R. S. C. 1883, Ord. LXIV. In 1914 on the occasion of the outbreak of the war with Germany the August Bank Holiday was extended by Proclamation to four days. See HOLIDAY....
Condition of leave and holiday
Condition of leave and holiday, The dictionary meaning of the word 'condition' is a provision or a stipulation. A provision or a stipulation as to leave and holidays would necessarily include a provision for the quantum of holidays and leave, Bagalkot Cement Co. Ltd. v. R.K. Pathan, AIR 1963 SC 439 (443): (1962) 2 Supp SCR 697. [Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 (2 of 1946), Sch. Cl. 5]...
Public Holiday
Public Holiday, means any day which is a Public Holiday for the purpose of s. 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881). [The West Bengal Panchayat Election Act, 2003, s. 2(21)]...
Half life
the time it takes for one half of a substance decaying in a first order reaction to be destroyed For radioactive substances it is the time required for one half of the initial amount of the radioactive isotope to decay The half lifeis a measure of the rate of the reaction being observed For processes that are true first order processes such as radioactive decay the half life is independent of the quantity of material present and it is thus a constant The time it takes for one half the remaining quantity of a radioactive isotope to decay will be the same regardless of how far the decay process has advanced Some chemical reactions are also first order and may be characterized as having a half life However for chemical reactions the half life will depend upon temperature and in some cases other environmental conditions whereas for radioactive isotopes the rate of decay is largely independent of the environment...
Half
Consisting of a moiety or half as a half bushel a half hour a half dollar a half view...
Half blood
Half blood, means two persons one said to be related to each other by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor but by different wives. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(e); Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 2(b)]The relationship through one only and not through both of the parents or other ancestors. By the old law a relative of the half-blood could not inherit real estate, but this was altered by the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106). In the succession to personal estate there was no distinction between the whole and the half-blood until 1926, when the Admin. Of Estates Act, 1925, ss. 46 & 47, enacted that the half-blood are only entitled to the distribution of an intestate estate on the total absence of the whole blood in equal degree; see FRATER FRATRI, etc.The relationship existing between persons having the same mother or father, but not both parents in common, Bl...
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