legal day

legal day
A day in which legal and judicial business can be transacted, as distinguished from dies non. It is distinguished also from a judicial day, which is a day in which the court is in session. State v Judges of the Court of Appeals, 48 La Ann 1079, 1080, 20 So 282.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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