Essoin Day
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In English practice. Formerly the first general return day of the term, on which the courts sat to receive essoins, i. e. excuses for parties who did not appear in court, according to the summons of writs.
3 Bl. Com. 278. Boole's Suit at Law, 57. Oilb. C. Pleas, 13. 1 Tidd's Fr. 107. But, by statutes 11 Geo. IV. and 1 Will. IV. c.
70, § 6, these days were done away with, as a part of the term.
Tomlins.
Wharton's Lex,