Michaelmas Term
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In English law. One of the four terms of the courts. It begins on the 2d day of November, and ends on the 25th of November. It was formerly a movable term. St. 11 Geo. IV. and 1 Wm. IV. c. 70.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See Term.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
One of the four terms of the English courts of common law, beginning on the 2d day of November and ending on the 25th. 3 Steph. Comm. 562.
Defined under Michaelmas in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
One of the four terms of the English courts of common law, beginning on the 2d and ending on the 25th of November.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
One of the four terms of the English courts of common law, beginning on the 2d day of November and ending on the 25th. 3 Steph. Comm. 562.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
In England, begins on the 2d, and ends on the 25 th of November.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
One of the terms of court, beginning on the 2d of November, and ending on the 25th or 26th of the same month, according as the 25th is not or is Sunday. Under the judicature act, 1875, the Michaelmas term is, so far as regards the sittings of the courts, to be superseded by the Michaelmas sittings. Mozley & W.