Nonjudicial Day Law and Legal Definition
Nonjudicial day means a day when courts do not conduct legal proceedings. For instance Sunday or any legal holiday is a nonjudicial day. At common law, Sunday was dies non juridicus (a nonjudicial day) and no judicial act or proceeding could be done or had on that day. A trial is a judicial proceeding which, in the absence of a statute providing otherwise, cannot be conducted on a Sunday. In other jurisdictions, appellate courts have held that various judicial acts undertaken on Sunday to be void. There is no Pennsylvania statute specifically relating to the matter but since 1705 the service or execution of any writ, precept, warrant, order, judgment or decree (except in cases of treason, felony or breach of peace) in Pennsylvania on Sunday was void. [Commonwealth v. Frantz, 1968 Pa. Dist. & Cnty. Dec. LEXIS 250 (Pa. C.P. 1968)].
Legal Definition list
- Nonissuable Plea
- Nonintercourse Act
- Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program [NAP]
- Noninstructional Time [Education]
- Noninnovator Multiple Source Drug
- Nonjudicial Day
- Nonjudicial Foreclosure
- Nonlocal Originating Depository Institution
- Nonmanufacturer Rule
- Nonmarket Economy Country
- Nonmethane Organic Gas (NMOG)
