Feria

I.

In old English law. A week day, as distinguished from Sunday; a holiday; a day exempt from judicial process; a fair; a ferry. Ferial days: working days, or week days, as distinguished from Sunday; holidays.

In old English law. A weekday; a holiday; a day on which process could not be served; a fair; a ferry. Cowell; Du Cange; Spelman. FERIAE.

In Roman law. Holidays; generally speaking, days or seasons during which free-born Romans suspended their political transactions and their lawsuits, and during which slaves enjoyed a cessation from labor. All feriae were thus dies nefasti. All feriae were divided into two classes, — "feriae publicae" and "feriae privatae." The latter were only observed by single families or individuals, in commemoration of some particular event which had been of importance to them or their ancestors. Smith, Dict. Antiq.

;. A vreek day; a holiday; a fair. Ferme,//. v. Feorme^ Farm. Fesaunt,/r. Doing. Fesour: a doer; v. J'fl'?.S(y«;, etc. Festiuatio justitise est noveroa iufortunii, /. Hurrying justice is stepmother to misfortune.

Lat.

In old English law. A week day, {dies ferialis,) as distinguished from Sunday. Spelman, A holiday; a day exempt from judicial process. Cowell, 4 Reeves' Hist, E. Law, 1 7. A fair. Bract, fol. 56 b. Spelman, Lib, Rames, cited ibid,