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New style. The modern system of computing time was introduced into Great Britain in 1752 by the Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 2, c. 23), the 3rd of September of that year being reckoned as the 14th. See NEW YEAR'S DAY....
Calendar
Calendar [fr. Calendarium, Lat.; fr. Calend', the first day in the month in Roman reckoning], the order and series of months, together with the festivals and fasts, which make up the year. There are two modes of computing time-by the annual course of the sun, and by the periodical revolutions of the moon. The solar year consists of 365 days, 5 hours, 48', 45', 30'; the lunar year of 354 days, 3 hours, 48', 38', 12'. The Mohammedans adopt the lunar year. The solar year, calculated by the ancient Egyptians, has undergone various corrections and denominations.The chief of the calendars now in use are the three following: (1) The Julian, so called because Julius C'sar introduced into the Roman Empire the solar or Egyptian year, instead of the lunar year. The Russians and Greeks are the only nations that now use the Julian year. The common Julian year consists of 365 days, and the bissextile or leap-year (see that title), which returns every four years, of 366 days. This computation is faul...
Feasts
Feasts, anniversary days of rejoining, either on a civil or religious occasion; opposed to fasts. Our feasts are either (1) immovable, such as Christmas-day, the Circumcision, Epiphany, Candlemas-day, Lady-day, All Saints, and All Souls, besides the days of the several apostles, St. Peter, St. Thomas, etc.: these are always celebrated on the same day of the year; or (2) movable, such as Easter,which fixes all the rest, as Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Sexagesima, Ascension-day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, etc. The four principal immovable feasts of the year, which are commonly assigned in England for the payment of rents on leases, are the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Lady-day, being the 25th of March; the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, held on the 24th of June; the feast of St. Michael on the 29th of September; and Christmas-day on the 25th of December.A still unrepealed Act of 1551-2 (5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3), directs certain days therein mentioned (being all S...
Fashion
Fashion, includes a popular trend or a life-style, specially in styles of dress and ornament or manners of behaviour or the business of creating, promoting or studying styles in vogue or the designing, production and marketing of new styles of goods such as, clothing accessories, craft and cosmetics; and the words 'fashion technology' with their grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall be construed accordingly, National Institute of Fashion Technology Act, 2006, s. 2(e)....
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....
Old style
Old style. See NEW YEAR'S DAY...
Style
Style, to call, name, or entitle one; the title or appellation of a person. See also CALENDAR, and NEW YEAR'S DAY....
Fast-day
Fast-day, a day of mortification by religious ab-stinence. See a list of Church of England Fast-days in the Prayer-book Calendar Scheduled to the (English) Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 3, c. 23), and see also the still unrepealed 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3 (printed in the second revised edition of the statutes published by authority in 1888), by which the eves of Christmas Day and other holy days are 'commanded to be fasted,' and arch-bishops, bishops and others are authorized to inquire of every person offending in the premises, and to punish offenders by the censures of the Church, and to enjoin them such penance as shall be to the spiritual judge by his discretion thought meet and convenient. 2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 19, however, providing for abstinence from flesh in Lent or on Fridays or Saturdays, which was expressly saved by s. 4 of this Act, has been repealed by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64, with many other disused Acts.Fast-days may also be appointed on special occasions by royal proclamati...
Year
Year, means a period commencing on 1st April and ending on 31st March next following. [Rajasthan Public Libraries Act, 2006, s. 2(t)]Means a year commencing on 1st day of April. [Equity Linked Savings Scheme, 2005, s. 2(g)][fr. gear, Sax.], 365 days, twelve calendar months, fifty-two weeks and one day, or in Leap Year (q.v.) 366 days, i.e., fifty-two weeks and two days.The first day of the year was legally altered for England from the 25th of March to 1st of January in and after 1752 by the Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 2, c. 23) (Chitty's Statutes, tit. ' Time '), but as appears from the preamble to that statute, the 1st of January had been the first day of the year in Scotland, in other nations, and by ' common usage throughout the whole kingdom.' See CALENDAR generally, when a statute speaks of a year it must be considered as twelve calendar and not lunar months, Bishop of Peterborough v. Catesby, 1608 Cro Jac 166.For the termination of the statutory year for certain finan...
New trial
New trial. If any defect of judgment happen from causes wholly extrinsic, i.e., arising from matters foreign to or dethors the record, the only remedy the party injured by it has (except formerly error coram nobis or vobis in some few cases) is by applying to the Court for a new trial, which is in substitution for a bill of exceptions. But the Court must be satisfied that there are strong probable grounds to suppose that the merits have not been fairly and fully discussed, and that the decision is not agreeable to the justice and truth of the case before they will grant a new trial.The following is a summary of the cases in which a new trial may be granted. They are all subject to the rule that in an action of contract, unless some right independent of the damages be in question, the amount in dispute must be 20l. at least for the Court to interfere.(1) Mistakes, etc., of a judge. If a judge misdirect a jury, even in a penal action, it is generally a good ground for a new trial. So if ...
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