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Home Dictionary Name: memorial dayMemorial Day
A day originally May 30 appointed for commemorating by decorating their graves with flowers by patriotic exercises etc the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War 1861 65 in the United States Also called Decoration Day It is a legal holiday in most of the States In the Southern States the Confederate Memorial Day is May 30 in Virginia April 26 in Alabama Florida Georgia and Mississippi May 10 in North Carolina and South Carolina the second Friday in May in Tennessee June 3 in Louisiana...
Decoration Day
a day May 30 originally appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors who fell in the Civil War in the United States now called Memorial Day and established as the last Monday in May and designated as a day for commemorating those who died in all wars of the United States...
Christmas-day
Christmas-day, a festival of the Christian Church observed on the 25th of December, in memory of the birth of Jesus Christ. It is one of the usual quarter-days for the payment of rent and salaries; it is also a day on which the offices of the Supreme Court are closed (R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII., r. 6), and it is not reckoned in the computation of time where less than six days is limited for doing anything by a rule of the Supreme Court (Ord. XLIV., r. 2). With respect to this, and also to the closing of public-houses, it stands in the same position as Good Friday....
Memorialize
To address or petition by a memorial to present a memorial to as to memorialize the legislature...
War Memorial
War Memorial. The (English) War Memorials (Local Authorities Powers) Act, 1923, enables local authorities under certain circumstances to maintain and repair memorials vested in them (English)...
main memory
The memory in a computer that holds programs and data for rapid access during execution of a program it usually hold the largest quantity of rapid access storage in a computer also called RAM random access memory It is contrasted to ROM disk data storage cache registers and other forms of data storage...
Memorials or petitions
Memorials or petitions, according to the strict construction of the words of article 320(3)(c), an application for review would be covered by the words 'memorials or petitions', State of Uttar Pradesh v. Manbhodan Lal Srivastava, AIR 1957 SC 912 (916): 1958 SCR 533. [Constitution of India, Art. 320(3)(c)]...
Memory, Time of legal
Memory, Time of legal. By Statute Westminster the First, 3 Edw. 1, A.D. 1276, the time of memory was limited to the beginning of the reign of Richard I., July 6, 1189: 2 Inst. 238, 239. But see the (English) Prescription Act, 2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71...
Sane memory
Sane memory, perfect and sound mind and memory to do any lawful act, etc....
Days of grace
Days of grace. Time of indulgence granted to an acceptor for the payment of his bill of exchange. It was originally a gratuitous favour (hence the name), but custom has rendered it a legal right.The number of these days varies according to the ancient custom or express law prevailing in each particular country. In the (English) United Kingdom, by the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 61), s. 14, 'where a bill' (i.e., a bill of exchange or promissory note) 'is not payable on demand, the day on which it falls due is determined as follows:-Three days, called days of grace, are, in every case where the bill itself does not otherwise provide, added to the time of payment as fixed by the bill, and the bill is due and payable on the last day of grace,' with a proviso that where the last day of grace falls on Sunday, Christmas Day, or Good Friday, or a public fast or thanksgiving day, the bill is payable on the preceding business day, or on the succeeding business day if the last d...
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