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Home Dictionary Name: midnightMidnight sun
The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer...
Week
Week, in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Third Edition), the word 'week' has been described as meaning 'the cycle of seven days, recognized in the calendar of the Jews and thence adopted in the calendar of Christian, Moham-medan and various other peoples. A space of seven days, irrespective of the time from which it is reckoned. Seven days as a term for periodical payments (of wages, rent, or the like), or as a unit of reckoning for time of work or service'. In Webster's New World Dictionary (1962 Edition), the meaning of the word 'week' is given as 'a period of seven days, especially one beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday; the hours or days of work in a seven-day period'. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (Third Edition), it is stated that '(1) though a week usually means any consecutive seven days, it will sometimes be interpreted to mean the ordinary notion of a week reckoning from Sunday to Sunday and (2) probably, a week usually means seven clear days'. A 'week' a...
Day
Day [fr. dies, Lat.; tag, Germ.], in its largest sense the time of a whole apparent revolution of the sun round the earth, but , in its popular acceptation, that part of the twenty-four hours when it is light, or the space of time between the rising and the setting of the sun. by the Roman Calendar the day commenced at midnight; and most European nations reckon in the same manner.In the space of a day all the twenty-four hours are usually reckoned. Therefore, in general, if I am bound to pay money on any certain day, I discharge the obligation if I pay it before twelve o'clock at night; after which the following day commences.If anything is to be done within a certain time, of, from, or after the doing or occurrence of something else, the day on which the first act or occurrence takes place is to be excluded from the computation, Williams v. Burgess, (1840) 12 A&E 635. In certain legislative and justiciary acts, e.g., the proceedings of the House of Lords as recorded in the Journals of...
Midnight
The middle of the night twelve oclock at night...
Morning
The first or early part of the day variously understood as the earliest hours of light the time near sunrise the time from midnight to noon from rising to noon etc...
Perioeligci
Those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other Compare Antoeligci...
At the end of the period of your tenancy
At the end of the period of your tenancy, means the same as 'after the end of the period of your tenancy' and is as a normal use of language in a material context that the period of the tenancy does not come to an end until midnight on the last day of that period, Notting Hill Housing Trust v. Roomus, (2006) 1 WLR 1375 (CA): (2006) EWCA Civ 407....
Day (aviation)
Day (aviation), means a continuous period of 24 hours beginning at Midnight Co-ordinated Universal Time, Air Navigation Order 1989, Art. 57(2)(b) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 1367, p. 673...
Discharge of a jury
Discharge of a jury takes place (1) either by the act of God, as the death of one of the jury; or (2) in due course on the termination of the trial by verdict (or sentence); or by the discretion of the judge determining that they are so exhausted as to be incapable of continuing their deliberations, or so divided as to be unable ever to agree, or that there is other sufficient cause. After such discharge there may be a further trial by another jury. See Winsor v. The Queen, (1866) LR 1 QB 289 (390), in which the Exchequer Chamber held this upon writ of error in a trial for murder in which the jury had declared at five minutes before a Saturday midnight that they were unable to agree, and on a second trial another jury found the prisoner guilty and she was sentenced to death and afterwards hanged....
Mera noctis
Mera noctis, midnight....
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