Holiday
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A day of cessation from labor; a day when public business is suspended; a nonjudicial day. Primarily the term meant a "holy day," or religious festival. In modern usage it indicates a secular day on which, by stat^ute, public business is suspended. It does not appropriately include Sunday.
51 N. J. Law, 255.