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The Sunday next before Easter so called in commemoration of the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way The event is commemorated in Christian churches by distribution of blessed palm leaves...
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...
Pascha floridum
Pascha floridum, the Sunday before Easter, called Palm-Sunday....
Sunday
Sunday [fr. sunnan daeg, Sax., the day of the sun], the first day of the week, the Lord's Day, termed in the Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (29 Car. 2, c. 7, infra), 'the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday.' It is a dies non juridicus, but an arrest for crime can be effected on this day; and bail can arrest their principal, and a sergeant-at-arms can apprehend; but no other law proceedings can be taken. By the Sunday Observance Act, 1677, it is enacted that:-No tradesmen, artificers, workmen, labourers, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business, or work of their ordinary callings [barbers are not within the enactment: Palmer v. Snow, (1900) 1 QB 725] upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted).The (English) Hairdressers and Barbers Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 35), prohibits opening on Sundays (Jewish hairdressers may open on Sunday but must close on Saturday).The (English) Shops (Sunday...
Dominica in ramis palmarum
Dominica in ramis palmarum. Palm Sunday....
Palm kernal
Palm kernal, palm kernel cannot be included under the item palm seeds and the two commodities were different as understood in commerce or trade, Priyanka Overseas (P) Ltd. v. Union of India, 1991 Supp 7 SCC 102: AIR 1991 SC 583 (592). [Imports and Exports (Control) Act, 1947]...
Sunday closing law
Sunday closing law : a law that requires certain commercial establishments to close on Sundays or that restricts the sales that may be made on that day ...
Sexagesima sunday
Sexagesima sunday, the second Sunday before Lent, being about the sixtieth day before Easter...
Palmed
Having or bearing a palm or palms...
Laeligtere Sunday
The fourth Sunday of Lent so named from the Latin word Laeligtare rejoice the first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that day in the Roman Catholic service...
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