Meaning of quarter day | Babel Free

Definitions

Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, formerly established as a time for rents and other payments to be due, tenancies to begin and end, and various meetings and assemblies to be held.

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Examples

“[T]he money was deposited in the hands of the mortgager, who, in the hearing of the lender, laid strong injunctions on his steward to pay⟳ the interest⟳ punctually at quarter-day.”

“The effect was that the line from Trades Lane to Carolina Port became part of the joint railway, as from Whitsunday, 1904. This date⟳, of course, was the Scottish quarter day (May 15) and not the movable ecclesiastica festival.”

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