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Holidays.
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CCXXXII. The following, and none other, shall be observed and kept as Holidays in the said Superior Courts and the Offices thereof, and the Court of Exchequer Chamber, and in the Office of Registrar of Judgments; that is to say, every Sunday, Christmas Day, and the Seven Days following that Day, Good Friday, Easter Eve, Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week, Whit Monday and Whit Tuesday, any Day appointed for a Public Fast or Thanksgiving, and when they do not occur in Term Time the Day appointed to be kept as the Birthday and the Day of the Accession of Her Majesty the Queen or of any of Her Successors; and the said Holidays shall not be reckoned or included in any Notices or other Proceedings, except Notices of Trial and Notices of Inquiry in any of the said Courts; and Sunday shall not be reckoned or included in any Notice or Proceeding whatsoever; and where the last Day included in any such Notice of Trial or Notice of Inquiry shall happen to fall on any of the Days hereby appointed to be observed and kept as Holidays, in such Case the following Day, or, when there shall be consecutive Holidays, the Day following the last of such Holidays, shall be considered as the last of such Days; and the Days from and including the First Day of August to the Twentieth Day of October inclusive, in each Year, shall not be reckoned Days within which any Summons and Plaint, Defence, or other Pleading should be filed, nor shall any such Pleading be filed or received upon such Days except a Plea of Confession or Consent for Judgment.
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