Vacation

That period of time between the end of one term and beg^inning of another. During vacation, rules and orders are made in such cases as are urgent, by a judge at his chambers. VACATUR (Law Lat. it is vacated).

In practice. A rule or order by which a proceeding is vacated; a vacating. VACQUER (L. FV.) To be at leisure. Kelham.

That period of time between the end of one term and beginning of another. During vacation, rules and orders are made in such cases as are urgent, by a judge at his chambers. See Term.

The interval between two successive terms of a court. Dming this period orders signed by a judge are said to be issued " at chambers," g. u. In this country all courts have terms and vacations. The time of the commencement of every term is fixed by statute, and the end of it by the final adjournment of the court for that term." The English year was divided into four terms of different lengths, separated by the vacations — the seasons of the great festivals or feasts, or deemed necessary on account of the avocations of rural business. The legal definition of " vacation " is, the period of time between the end of one term- and the beginning of another; and this meaning will be given to the word in a statute, unless it appears that a more popular sense was intended. The intervals between the actual sessions of court when conducting the business of a term cannot be called vacations.'" Under the earlier organization of courts in Eng- ' Vaughan v. Johnson, 77 Va. 300 (1883); Johnson v. Mann, ib. 271 (1883). ' Steubenv Ule v. Gulp, 38 Ohio St. 18, 23 (1882). ' Be Farrow and Bigby, 4 Woods, 492-94 (1880), cases. Woods, Cir. J. Constitution, Art. II, sec. 2, cl. 3. * [Cline V. Greenwood, 10 Oreg. 238-39 (1882), cases. 'Laselle v. Hoboken Ins. Co., 43 N. J. L. 470 (1881); Sleeper v. N. H. Ins. Co., 66 N. H. 404 (1876). « Marshall v. Bompart, 18 Mo. 87 (1863). T See Walsh v. Commonwealth, ante. 8 Kansas Pacific E. Co. v. Twombly, 100 U. S. 81 (1879). e Bronson v. Schulten, 104 U. S. 415 (1881). land, the terms, which began and ended on fixed days, aggregated ninety-one days. The vacations embraced all days not included in the terms... The word may embrace the period, after adjournment, in which a court does not sit and transact business, as, in a statute authorizing judgments by confession in vacation; and not embrace all the time the court is not actually in session, or the time of adjournment from day to day. '

The time between the end of one term and the beginning of another: and it begins the last day of every term, as soon as the court rises. Tlie time from the death of a bishop, or other spiritual person, till the bishopric or dignity is supplied with another, is also called vacation. Jacob. The interval between each term is termed the vacation; tliat is, between the end of one term and the beginning of the next. These intervals of a cessation of business are retained under the judicature acts, but The vacations to be observed in the offices of the supreme court are four: the long vacation, from August 10th to October 24th; the Christmas vacation, from December 24th to January 6th; the Easter vacation, from Good Friday to Tuesday in Easter week; and the Whitsun "vacation, from the day before Whit Sunday to Tuesday in Whitsuu week. The days of the commencement and termination of each vacation are included in such vacation. The vacations do not entirely fill up the intervals between the sittings. Modey

is that period of time between the end of one term and beginning of another. During vacation rules and orders are made in such cases as are urgent, by a judge at his chambers.