law-dayn.
/ˈlɔːdeɪ/, U.S. /ˈlɔˌdeɪ/, /ˈlɑˌdeɪ/ Obsolete exc. Historical.
1. The day for the meeting of a court of law, esp. of the sheriff's court, once in six months, or of the court leet, once a year; hence used for the session of such a court, and the court itself.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > a or the session of a court > [noun] > period when courts sit > day when court sits
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court-day1484
pleadable day1569
hall day1585
1235–52 Rent. Glaston. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 189 Salvis duobus laghedaghes.
1292 Year-bk. 20 & 21 Edw. I (Rolls) 339 A deus lauedaues [printed lauedanes] par an.
1331 Lit. Cantuar. 31 Oct. (Rolls) I. 403 Ad exigendum et manutenendum jura..ac etiam Curiam nostram de Godmersham, quæ dicitur Laghe daye, die Veneris proxime sequente.
1444 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 399 The law dayis eftir Michelmess.
1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 370 That the articles of the yelde aforeseid be redde and declared at the lawday.
1516 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 16 Two tymys yn ye yere to kepe a lawedaye there.
1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 26 §23 [Lordes marchers] shall have..their Lordshippes Courtis Baron Court letes and Lawedayes.
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall Ded. sig. A3v I will present you at the law day for a ryot.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 201 Thirdly, that Thursday should be Court or law-day for deciding controversies.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 145 Who has a breast so pure, But some vncleanely apprehensions, Keepe leetes and law-dayes.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 194 Law-day signifies a Leet or Sheriffes tourne.
1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 23 Apr. (O.H.S.) II. 379 A Lawday of the Dean and Canons of Hereford.
1890 C. Gross Gild Merchant II. 105 The ‘curia legalis’ (Law-day) was held yearly the Monday next after the feast of St. Hilary.
2. A day appointed for the discharge of a bond, after which the debtor could not at common law be relieved from the forfeiture.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > foreclosure > day after which debtor must forfeit
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1492 J. Ryman Poems xcii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1892) 89 266 I make an ende within shorte space. I sette no lawe day in the case.
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