Quarter Days - Law Dictionary Search Results
Quarter-days
Matched in: Term Quarter-days
Quarter of a year
Matched in: Term Quarter of a year
Sessions of the peace
theatres outside the Lord Chamberlain's jurisdiction, now granted by county or borough councils, see THEATRE. III. General or Quarter Sessions of the peace, held before two or more justices, for execution of the general authority given to … 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
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of the said tenement, and bring it before the mayor and bailiffs; and this he must do seven quarter-days successively; and if, on the seventh quarter-day, the lord is not satisfied his rent and arrears then the
Apportionment
between a landlord and a tenant, so that if a tenancy be determined in the middle of a quarter, the landlord gets rent up to the day of determination, whereas before the Act the whole of the
Recorder
and an 'assistant recorder' if it appears that the Quarter Sessions are likely to last more than three days (ibid., s. 168), as amended by the Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 38). … Recorder, in municipal boroughs having a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, a barrister of five years' standing at least, appointed by the Crown, holding office during good behaviour,
Christmas-day
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
Midsummer day
the Baptist, a festival first mentioned by Maximus Tauricensis, A.D. 400. It is one of the four usual quarter-days for the paying of rent.
Lady-day
25th of March in every year, being the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, and one of the usual quarterly days for the payment of rent, etc. lady-day, under the old style, was April 6th.
Lammas
bread composed of new wheat], the gule or 1st of August, and the second of the four cross quarter-days of the year, Encyc. Londin.; Wheat. Com. Pr.
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