legal year

Due to the abundance of marine life, fishing is legal year round.

Connecticut appellate courts divide the legal year into eight terms starting in September.

The Chief Justice also stated this position in the ceremonial opening of the 2010 legal year.

Until the 13th century, the legal year began at Christmas (25 December).

Despite of declining health, he managed to work through the legal year of 2009 in Brunei.

Sheppard published his first paper in 1888 and then he published nothing during his legal years.

Legal year information from judiciary.

Following Singapore's full independence in 1965, the ceremony became known as the Opening of the Legal Year.

These are customary divisions of the legal year when contracts traditionally begin and end and payments are due.

Some judges do wear wigs as part of the ceremonies during the opening address of the legal year in Hong Kong.

The United States Supreme Court follows part of the legal year tradition, albeit without the elaborate ceremony.

Several Midwest and East Coast states and some federal courts still use the legal year and stated terms of court.

The Court is open for business year-round (as opposed to operating only during scheduled "terms" as is commonplace in jurisdictions that observe the legal year).

The legal year, in English law as well as in other common law jurisdictions, is the calendar during which the judges sit in court.

The start of the legal year for courts in Taiwan is referred to as Judicial Day and marked in early January.

Devilling is compulsory for those barristers who wish to be members of the Law Library and lasts for one legal year.

This means that when the legal year began on 25 December the legal year was nearly a year behind the historical calendar.

New legal year sees new team take up posts Department for Constitutional Affairs press release, 3 October 2005)

The term is also the name of the first of four terms into which the legal year is divided by the courts of Wales and England.

The expression is also used for the third term of the legal year in the Courts of England and Wales, many schools and other educational institutions.

For example, as the law courts are nearby, the beginning of the legal year is marked with a service attended by the Supreme Court justices in ceremonial costume.

For example the first January of William the Conqueror's reign was in the legal year of 1066 but the historical calendar year of 1067.

However, the majority of U.S. states and most federal courts have abandoned the legal year and the related concept of stated terms of court.

At the beginning of the legal year, the Lord Chancellor officiates at a ceremony in Westminster Abbey in front of all the judges.

The courts of England and Wales divide the legal year into four terms: Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas.