Lat. A day; days. Days for appearance in court. Provisions or maintenance fora day. The king’s rents were anciently reserved by so many days’ provisions. Spelman;Cowell; Blount.

(The day from which.) In the civil law. The day from which a transactionbegins; the commencement of it: the conclusion being the dies ad quem. Mackeld.Rom. Law,

The day begins ; dies venit, the day has come.Two expressions in Roman law which signify the vesting or fixing of an interest, and the interest becoming a present one. Sandars’ Just.

A day given in the bench, (or court of common pleas.) Bract, fols. 2576, 301. A day given in bank, as distinguished from a day at nisi prius. Co. Litt. 135.

A day given to the parties to an action; an adjournment or continuance. Crabb, Eng. Law. 217.

A day given on the prayer of the parties. Bract, fol. 358; Gilb. Comm. PI. 41; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 60.

The Lord’s day; Sunday.

In old English law. The added or increasing day in leap pear. Bract, fols. 359, 3506.

In Roman law. Days on which the courts were open, and justice could be legallyadministered ; days on which it was lawful for the pnetor to pronounce (fari) the threewords, “do,” “dico,”

In the civil law. Holidays. Dig. 2, 12, 2, 9.

In old English practice. A day of grace, courtesy, or favor. Co. Litt 1346. The quarto die post was sometimes so called. Id. 135a.

In Roman law. Divided days; davs on which the courts were open for a part of the day. Calvin.

A lawful day for the transaction of judicial or court business; a day on which the courts are ormav be open for the transaction of business. Didsbury v. Van Tassell, 56 Hun,

In the civil and old English law. A lawful or law day; a term day; a day of appearance.

In old English law. The day of meetin of English and Scotch, which was annually held on the marches or borders to adjusttheir differences and preserve peace.

In Roman law. Days on which the courts were closed, and it was unlawful to administer justice; answering to the dies nonjuridioi of the English law. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

An abbreviation of Dies non juridicus, (q. v.)

In practice. A day not juridical; not a court day. A day on which courts are not open for business, such as Sundays and someholidays. Havens v. Stiles, 8 Idaho, 250, 67

In old English law. A solar day, as distinguished from what was called “dieslunaris,” (a lunar day;) both composing an artificial day. Bract, fol. 264. See DAY.

Juridical days; useful or available days. A term of the Roman law,used to designate those especial days occurring within the limits of a prescribed periodof time upon which it was lawful, or