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Home Dictionary Name: whit mondayWhit Monday
Whit Monday. See WHITSUNTIDE....
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...
Whitsuntide
Whitsuntide, the east of Pentecost, being the fiftieth day after Easter, and the first of the four cross-quarters days of the year.Whitsuntide offerings were held assessable to income tax in Slaney v. Starkey, (1931) 2 KB 148.Whit Monday is, by the 34 & 35 Vict. c. 17, and 38 & 39 Vict. c. 13, made a holiday in banks, custom-houses, docks, inland revenue offices, and bonding-warehouses. Whit Monday is a holiday in the several courts and offices of the Supreme Court. [(English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII., r. 6]...
Bank holidays
Bank holidays. Easter Monday, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August, and the 26th December if a weekday, or if it is a Sunday the 27th, or any day appointed by Order in Council in place of one of these, and any day appointed by Royal Proclama-tion in addition to these, is a statutory bank holiday in England, 34 & 35 Vict. c.17; 38 & 39 Vict. c. 13; 45 & 46 Vict. c. 61. R. S. C. 1883, Ord. LXIV. In 1914 on the occasion of the outbreak of the war with Germany the August Bank Holiday was extended by Proclamation to four days. See HOLIDAY....
Plough-Monday
Plough-Monday, the Monday after Twelfth-Day....
Black Monday
Easter Monday so called from the severity of that day in 1360 which was so unusual that many of Edward IIIs soldiers then before Paris died from the cold...
Rogation Week
Rogation Week [fr. rogando (Deum), Lat., supplicating God], the second week before Whit Sunday; thus called from three fasts observed therein, the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, called Rogation days, because of the extraordinary prayers then made for the fruits of the earth, or as a preparation for the devotion of Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of our Lord....
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....
Dependent
Dependent, 'dependent' has a wholly artificial meaning different from its statutory definition. No coparcener in a Hindu undivided family is a dependent of the family; he is an owner of the entire property of the family in common with the other coparceners. His rights arise on birth into the family, and so long as the family remains joint, his internest in the property is no whit less than the interest of any other coparcener, C.F.T. v. Darshan Surendra Parekh, AIR 1968 SC 1125: (1968) 2 SCR 589. [Expenditure Tax Act, 1957, s. 2(g)]Means any person who is related to an emigrant and is dependent on that emigrant. [Emigration Act, 1983 (31 of 1983), s. 2(1)(c)]...
Embring days or ember days
Embring days or ember days [fr. embers; cineres, Lat., because our ancestors, when they fasted, sat in ashes, or strewed them on their heads], those days which the ancient fathers called quatuor tempora jejunii are of great antiquity in the church; they are observed on the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday next after (a) the first Sunday in Lent; (b) Whit Sunday; (c) Holyrood Day, September 14; and (d) St. Lucy's Day, December 13, Brit. c. liii.; Book of Common Prayer. Our almanacs call the weeks in which they fall the Ember weeks, and they are now chiefly noticed on account of the ordination of priests and deacons; because the 31st canon appoints the Sunday next after the Ember weeks for the solemn times of ordination, Wheatly Com. Pr....
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