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Dies non

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A day on which courts are not held.

    "Sunday, as the Midland timetable sapiently observed, was a dies non in Scotland, yet the N.B.R. [North British Railway], though a Scots company, had a Sunday train; true, it did not work on Scottish soil, as it only ran over the 22 miles of Cumbrian track that connected Carlisle and Silloth."

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Latin dies non juridicus.

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