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A vacation between two terms of a court...
Actual service
Actual service, 'Actual service' includes--(i) time spent by a Judge on duty as a Judge, or in the performance of such other functions as he may, at the request of the President, undertake to discharge; and(ii) vacations means such period or periods during a year as may be fixed as vacation by or under the rules of the Supreme Court made with the prior approval of the president. [Supreme Court Judges Conditions of Service Act, 1958, s. 2(b)...
leaflet
leaflet : a usually folded printed sheet intended for free distribution vi -let·ed or: -let·ted -let·ing or: -let·ting : to hand out leaflets [invalidated an ordinance banning all leafleting "David Kairys"] vb leased leas·ing vt 1 : to grant by lease to another [s mopeds to tourists] 2 : to hold under a lease [a company leasing a fleet of cars for its executives] vi 1 : to be under a lease or subject to a lease [the vacation house s for $500 a week] 2 : to grant property by a lease [have leased to students in the past] ...
Quare incumbravit
Quare incumbravit, a writ which lay against a bishop, who, within six months after the vacation of a benefice, conferred it on his clerk, whilst two others were contending at law for the right of presentation calling upon him to show cause why he had incumbered the church, Reg. Brev. 32. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm 4, c. 27....
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (that you have the body to answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed to him who detains another in custody, and commands him to produce the body, with the day and cause of his caption and detention, and to do, submit to, and receive whatever the judge or Court shall consider in that behalf. The writ is applied for either by motion to a Court or application to a judge, supported by an affidavit of the facts. (See (English) Crown Office Rules, 1906, rr. 216-230.) If a probable ground be shown that the party is imprisoned without a cause and has a right to be delivered, this writ ought of right to be granted to every man committed or detained in prison or otherwise restrained, though by command of the sovereign, the Privy Council, or any other power. Therefore there is an absolute necessity of express-ing upon every commitment the reason for which it is made, that ...
Non-terminus
Non-terminus, the vacation between term and term, formerly called the time or days of the King's peace. see now title TERMS....
Michaelmas Sittings
Michaelmas Sittings of the Supreme Court commence on the 12th October, and terminate on the 21st of December. By Order in Council (The Long Vacation) (1935) Order, 1935, the sittings were ordered to commence on October 7th. The day of commencement is that which his appointed by Order in Council (see R.S.C. Ord. LXIII., r. 1)....
Justitium
Justitium, a ceasing from the prosecution of law, and exercising justice in places judicial. The Vacation, Cowel's Law Dict...
Holiday, or Holyday
Holiday, or Holyday, a feast day with cessation from labour, as by 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3, all Sundays in the year and also Christmas-day and other days by that Act commanded 'to be kepte holie dayes and none other.'By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII., r. 6, it is provided that the several offices of the Supreme Court shall be open on every day of the year except Sundays, Good Friday, Monday and Tuesday in Easter-week, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August, Christmas-day and the next following working day, and all days appointed by proclamation to be observed as days of general fast, humiliation, or thanksgiving; and the day appointed to be kept as the King's birthday. See also VACATION.The Bank Holidays Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 17), provides that Easter Monday, the Monday in Whitsun-week, the first Monday in August, and the 26th day of December, if a week day, shall be kept as bank holidays in England and Ireland, and New Year's day, Christmas-day (or, if either be a Sunday, the following da...
Offices of the Supreme Court
Offices of the Supreme Court. The offices of the Supreme Court are to be open every day except Sundays, Good Friday, Easter Eve, Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week, White Monday, the first Monday in August, Christmas-day and the next following working day, and all days appointed by proclamation to be observed as days of general fast, humiliation, or thanksgiving, the day appointed to be kept as the King's birthday, and such days as the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls and the President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, shall direct, (English) R.S.C., Ord. LXIII., r. 6 (as amended)As to the vacations in the offices of the Supreme Court, see VACATION....
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