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Saturday's Stop, a space of time from evensong on Saturday till sun-rising on Monday, in which it was not lawful to take salmon in Scotland and the northern parts of England....
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...
Shop
Shop, a place where thins are kept for sale, usually in small quantities, to the actual consumers. By (English) Shops Act, 1912, s. 19, 'shop' includes any premises where any 'retail trade or business' is carried on; 'retail trade or business' includes the business of a barber or hairdresser, but not the sale of programmes, etc., at places of amusement.A business establishment or place of employment; a factory, office, or other place of business, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1384.The (English) Shops Act, 1934, deals with the employment of persons under eighteen years, repealing s. 2 of the (English) Shops Act, 1912; but the other provisions are unaffected. The 1934 Act, s. 1, provides that no young person (under eighteen) shall be employed for more than the normal maximum working hours, that is, forty-eight hours in any week; it makes restrictions on right employment, has special provisions as to the catering trade, the sale of accessories for Aircraft, motor vehicles and cycle...
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...
Friday
The sixth day of the week following Thursday and preceding Saturday...
Jogger
One who jogs as the paths in Central Park on a summer Saturday are filled with joggers...
Saturday
The seventh or last day of the week the day following Friday and preceding Sunday...
Bills of quantities
Bills of quantities, is a document which itemizes the work described in the drawings and specification. It too will be split into sections or elements frequently in accordance with the rules or recommendations of standard methods of measurement. Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 309, p. 284; see also C. Bryant & Son Ltd. v. Birminghan Hospital Saturday Fund, (1938) 1 All ER 503....
Business day
Business day, For the purposes of the (English) Bills of Exchange Act,1882, s. 92 provides that any day other than (a) Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day, (b) a bank holiday, (c) a day appointed by royal proclamation as a public fast or thanksgiving, is a business day.Business day means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday in any part of Great Britain; Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 8(1), 4th Edn., Para 1294, p. 1009....
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....
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