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Legally recognised '''holidays in Great Nortend''' are established under the [[Judiciary of Great Nortend|regular law]], statute and royal proclamation. There are four types of holiday: customary holidays, full holidays, bank holidays and half holidays.
'''Holidays in Great Nortend''' are days which are established or recognised by the [[Law of Great Nortend|law]] for the commemoration of certain events, persons or causes. Great Nortend has one of the highest number of public holidays in the world. In total there are 29 public holidays, all which can be broadly classified as Christian in nature. They are referred to by their associated feast days, or “holy days”, on the [[Church of Nortend]] calendar.  


==Customary holidays==
==Traditions==
Customary holidays are holidays by custom and are recognised by the regular law courts as being Christmas Day (25th of December) and Good Friday (as determined by Computus). Most commercial businesses are required by the regular law to close on these two holidays. Customary holidays are also compulsory church attendance days and every [[Subjectship of Great Nortend|full subject]] is required to make reasonable effort to attend a religious service on this day.
Holidays, or “red letter days”, are recognised by the [[Law of Great Nortend|customary law]] as being days of religious observance.<ref>''Umbeck'' v. ''Colhare''.</ref> No transaction in trade or legal process can occur on a holiday, and are deemed to occur on the day after. Furthermore, there are many cultural traditions associated with holidays throughout the year, often blending agricultural or pre-Christian customs or beliefs with Christian observances.


==Full holidays==
Not all holidays observed in Great Nortend are deemed public holidays, which entail the compulsory cessation of unnecessary servile toil. Notably all Sundays are public holidays. Additionally, the ''Holy and Especial Days Act'', 36 Cath. II, which superseded the 1893 act of the same name, determined twenty-five days as being full public holidays. These are :—
Full holidays are enshrined in law in the ''Holy and Especial Days Act'', 36 Cath. II, which superseded the 1893 act of the same name. Full holidays allow a servant of a company to not work on that day, except in certain exempted occupations such as constables, physicians, nurses, apothecaries, firemen, ambulancemen, utilities workers and railwaymen. The full holidays are: St Mark's Day (Rogation Day), St Christopher's Day (Hambria only), St Whimn's Day or Whimtould (Almeshire and South Heymeadshire), All Saints' Day, St Edmund's Day (Nortend and Cardoby only) and Holy Saturday.
* Michaelmas Day, or [[Civil Year of Great Nortend|New Year's Day]]
* Christmas Day
* Saint Stephen's Day
* Saint John the Evangelist's Day
* Childermas Day
* Circumcision of the Lord
* Epiphany Day
* Candlemas Day
* Lady Day, or the Annunciation
* Good Friday
* Holy Saturday
* Easter Day
* Easter Monday
* Easter Tuesday
* Hock Monday
* Ascension Day
* Whitsun Day, or the King's Official Birthday
* Saint John the Baptist's Day, or Midsummer Day
* Saint Edmund
* Saint Christopher
* Saints Peter and Paul
* Visitation of Mary
* Marymas Day, or the Nativity of Mary
* All Hallows' Day
* Roodmas, or the Invention of the Holy Cross
* Assumption of Mary
* Trinity Sunday
* Corpus Christi


==Bank holidays==
The same act also prescribed numerous half holidays on additional holy days which entitle workers to attend the noon high mass from 11 a. m to 1 p. m.
Bank holidays are holidays that mean no person may be compelled to make a payment. A payment made on the day thereafter would be equivalent in law as doing it on the day itself. On bank holidays, all banks are required to close. Bank holidays are announced every year by Royal Proclamation. The closing of banks, and the de facto closure of government buildings (except the Post Office), courts and schools mean that most commercial businesses also choose to close on most of these days by not all. Bank holidays are governed by the ''Bank Holidays Act'', 23 Geo. II, and are presently: Whit Monday, St Stephen's Day or Boxing Day, Easter Monday and Hock Tuesday, as well as all Sundays.


==Half holidays==
==Half holidays==

Revision as of 10:21, 4 March 2021

Holidays in Great Nortend are days which are established or recognised by the law for the commemoration of certain events, persons or causes. Great Nortend has one of the highest number of public holidays in the world. In total there are 29 public holidays, all which can be broadly classified as Christian in nature. They are referred to by their associated feast days, or “holy days”, on the Church of Nortend calendar.

Traditions

Holidays, or “red letter days”, are recognised by the customary law as being days of religious observance.[1] No transaction in trade or legal process can occur on a holiday, and are deemed to occur on the day after. Furthermore, there are many cultural traditions associated with holidays throughout the year, often blending agricultural or pre-Christian customs or beliefs with Christian observances.

Not all holidays observed in Great Nortend are deemed public holidays, which entail the compulsory cessation of unnecessary servile toil. Notably all Sundays are public holidays. Additionally, the Holy and Especial Days Act, 36 Cath. II, which superseded the 1893 act of the same name, determined twenty-five days as being full public holidays. These are :—

  • Michaelmas Day, or New Year's Day
  • Christmas Day
  • Saint Stephen's Day
  • Saint John the Evangelist's Day
  • Childermas Day
  • Circumcision of the Lord
  • Epiphany Day
  • Candlemas Day
  • Lady Day, or the Annunciation
  • Good Friday
  • Holy Saturday
  • Easter Day
  • Easter Monday
  • Easter Tuesday
  • Hock Monday
  • Ascension Day
  • Whitsun Day, or the King's Official Birthday
  • Saint John the Baptist's Day, or Midsummer Day
  • Saint Edmund
  • Saint Christopher
  • Saints Peter and Paul
  • Visitation of Mary
  • Marymas Day, or the Nativity of Mary
  • All Hallows' Day
  • Roodmas, or the Invention of the Holy Cross
  • Assumption of Mary
  • Trinity Sunday
  • Corpus Christi

The same act also prescribed numerous half holidays on additional holy days which entitle workers to attend the noon high mass from 11 a. m to 1 p. m.

Half holidays

Half holidays are holidays given on certain holy days that give workers the right to attend a morning church service before going to work and are determined by Royal Proclamation annually and include Lady Day (considered to be the first day of the year), St George's Day, Ascension Day, St John's Day, St Martin's Day, Michaelmas, All Souls' Day, St Lucy's Day, Feast of the Circumcision, Epiphany, Candlemas, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday and all Ember Days.

Concurrence

Additional holidays are not created when two or more holidays coincide, including when a holiday coincides with a Sunday, the latter being a bank holiday.

Other celebrations

Other days celebrated, though not being holidays per se, include May Day, Whitsunday on which the occasion of the King's Birthday is celebrated, St Peter and Paul's Day, St James's Day, Lammas, Harvest Sunday, Hallow Sunday, St Nicholas's Day, Plough Monday and Easter Sunday. Some are bank holidays by virtue of their falling on a Sunday.

  1. ↑ Umbeck v. Colhare.
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