Vacation

Vacation in United Kingdom

Meaning of Vacation

The following is an old definition of Vacation [1]: The interval between two successive terms of a court. Dming this period orders signed by a judge are said to be issued ” at chambers,” q. u. In this country all courts have terms and vacations. The time of the commencement of every term is fixed by statute, and the end of it by the final adjournment of the court for that term. The English year was divided into four terms of different lengths, separated by the vacations – the seasons of the great festivals or feasts, or deemed necessary on account of the avocations of rural business. The legal definition of ” vacation ” is, the period of time between the end of one termand the beginning of another; and this meaning will be given to the word in a statute, unless it appears that a more popular sense was intended. The intervals between the actual sessions of court when conducting the business of a term cannot be called vacations.0 Under the earlier organization of courts in England, the terms, which began and ended on fixed days, aggregated ninety-one days. The vacations embraced all days not included in the terms. . . The word may embrace the period, after adjournment, in which a court does not sit and transact business, as, in a statute authorizing judgments by confession in vacation; and not embrace all the time the court is not actually in session, or the time of adjournment from day to day.

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  1. Concept of Vacation provided by the Anderson Dictionary of Law (1889) (Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims and an Exposition of the Principles of Law: Comprising a Dictionary and Compendium of American and English Jurisprudence; William C. Anderson; T. H. Flood and Company, Law Publishers, Chicago, United States)

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