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Year and a day

Matched in: Term Year and a day

Sessions of the peace

bys. 10 of the (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, a general annual licensing meeting within the irst fourteen days of February, for licensing alehouses and victualling-houses to sell excisable liquors by retail to be drunk or consumed

Alien

within His Majesty's allegiance if born in a place where by treaty, capitulation, grant, usage, sufferance, or other lawful means, His Majesty exercises jurisdiction over British subjects. Any person whose British nationality is conditional on registration at … entitled, either mediately or immediately, in possession or expectancy, in pursuance of any disposition made before the twelfth day of May, 1870, or in pursuance of any devolution by law on the death of any person dying

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Free days

Free days, under the heading 'Free Days' it is provided that all goods will be allowed storage in locks free

Adjourn

body etc. in bringing a sitting to a close, with the intention of resuming on the next working day or a specified later date. Webster Law Dictionary, p. 18. In U.K., the House of Lords and the

Full age

years. a man is competent in law to do anything as a person of full age on the day preceding his 21st birthday, because the completion of the 21st year is supposed to belong as much to

Voluntary jurisdiction

of no opposition or question, and therefore cognizable by any judge and in any place and on any lawful day, Bell's Scots Law Dict.

Banking day

Matched in: Term Banking day

Day of importation

Matched in: Term Day of importation

Essoin, Essoigne, Assoign

latter de malo lecti. See 1 Reeves, 115 and 405, for other essoins. Formerly the first general return day of the term was called the essoin day, because the Court sat to receive essoins; but when essoins

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