week

A week is a definite period of time, commencing on Sunday and ending on Saturday.

A period of time commencing on Sunday morning and ending on Saturday night. 60 Neb. 260. Though it usually means any consecutive seven days, it will sometimes be interpreted to mean the ordinary notion of a week reckoning from Sunday to Sunday. 24 L. J. 368, 416.

Seven days of time. The week commences immediately after twelve o'clock on the night between Satur-' day and Sunday, and ends at twelve o'clock, seven days of twenty-four hours each, thereafter. See Ronkendorff v. Taylor, 4 Pet (U. duration without reference to when that period commences; State v. Mining Co., 5 Nev. 430. In a contract for employment, week will be construed to mean week days only where employment is prohibited on Sunday; Keith v. Kellermunn, 169 Fed. 196. The first publication of a notice of a sale, under a power contained in a mortgage, which requires the notice to be published “once each week for three successive weeks,” need not be made three weeks before the time appointed for the sale; Dexter v. Shepard, 117 Mass. 480. See Time. Week-Work. In early English times, the obligation of a tenant to work two or three days in every week for his lord, during the greater part of the year, and four or five during the summer months. 1 Foil. & Maitl. 349.

A period of time, of seven ticularly, beginning Sunday next Saturday.

A period of time commencing on Sunday morning and ending at midnight Saturday; also, a period of seven days' duration, without reference to the time when it commences.' "Once a week" means once between each Sunday and Saturday night, the particular time of the week not being important. 3 The first publication of a notice of a sale under a power contained in a mortgage, which requires the notice to be published " once a week for three successive weeks," need not be made three weeks before the time appointed for the sale.* See Day; Month; Newspapek; Time; Yeak,

This word, both in law and in common conversation or writing, has two separate and distinct meanings. Sometimes it means a period of time commencing on Sunday morning and ending Saturday night at midnight; at other times, a period of time of seven days' duration, without any reference to when that time commences. " Once a week " means once between each Sunday and Saturday night, and the particular time of the week is not important. State V. Yellow Jacket, &c. Mining Co., 5 Nev. 415, 430. A week is a definite period of time, commencing on Sunday and ending on Saturday; and under a rule requiring service to be made, by publication, "not less than once a week for six weeks," the notice need not be published on the same day in each week, but may be on any day in each week during the six weeks. Seven days' interval between the publications is not essential. Steinle r. Bell, 12 Abb. Pr. n. s. 171. In conformity with a special act of congress authorizing the sale of certain property, public notice of the sale was published in a newspaper for three months; but in the course of that period eleven days at one time, at another ten, and at another eight days transpired between successive advertisements, which were directed to appear " once a week." Held, that the statute did fore, that the notice was suf Scient. A week is a definite period of time, commencing on Sunday and ending on Saturday. Bonkendorff V. Taylor, 4 Pet. 349.