Sunday

“I do not think there can be the smallest doubt that to sit judicially on Sunday on any business would be indecent and improper, and ought never to be done if it can be helped.”

“It would hardly be decent to adjourn the Court to Sunday.”

“It is laid down in distinct terms by high authority, that of Lord Coke and Comyns, that Sunday is not a juridical day.”

“Working days in England are not the same as working days in foreign ports, because working days in England, by the custom and habits of the English, if not by their law, do not include Sundays.”

“Anciently, the Courts of justice did sit on Sundays.”