HOLIDAY

A religious festival; a day set apart for commemorating some important event in history; a day of exemption from labor. Webster. A day upon which the usual operations of busine are suspended and the courts closed, and, generally, no legal proce is served. -Legal holiday. A day designated by Jaw wi exempt from judicial proceedings, service or proce , demand and protest of commercial paper, etc.-Publio holiday, A legal holiday. HO~. An island in a river or the sea. Spelman. Plain gra y ground upon water sides or in the water. Blount. Low ground. intersected with streams. Spelman. HOLOGRA' FO. In Spanish law. A holograph. An instrument (particulady a will) wholly in the handwriting of the person executing it; or which, to be valid, must be so written by his own hand. ' [s. 580]