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Home Dictionary Name: holidayHoliday, 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 holiday
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...
New Year's Day
New Year's Day, the 1st of January. The 25th of March was the civil and legal New Year's Day till the alteration of the style in 1752, when it was permanently fixed as the 1st January.In Scotland the year was, by a proclamation which bears date 27th November, 1599, ordered thenceforth to commence in that kingdom on the 1st January instead of the 25th March. By the (English) Bank Holidays Act, 1871 (34 Vict. c. 17), New Year's Day is made a bank holiday in Scotland, and bills, etc., becoming due on that day are payable on the following day. See HOLIDAY....
VerbarFiesta
Among Spanish a religious festival a saints day or holiday also a holiday or festivity...
Labor Day
In most of the States and Territories of the United States a day usually the first Monday of September set aside as a legal holiday in honor of or in the interest of workingmen as a class Also a similar holiday in Canada Australia etc...
Business day
Business day, For the purposes of the (English) Bills of Exchange Act,1882, s. 92 provides that any day other than (a) Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day, (b) a bank holiday, (c) a day appointed by royal proclamation as a public fast or thanksgiving, is a business day.Business day means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday in any part of Great Britain; Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 8(1), 4th Edn., Para 1294, p. 1009....
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