Grand Days
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In English practice. Certain days in the terms, which are solemnly kept in the inns of court and chancery, viz. Candlemas day in Hilary Term, Ascension day in Easter, St. John the Baptist's day in Trinity, and All Saints in Michaelmas; which are dies non-juridici. Termes de la ley.
Cowell. Blount. Wharton.
According to Mr. Holthouse, they are days set apart for peculiar festivity; the members of the respective inns being on such occasions regaled at their dinner in the hall, with more than usual sumptuousness. Holthouse, in voc.