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What (who) is quarter day - definition

FOUR RELIGIOUS DATES PER YEAR THAT ALSO SERVED AS FINANCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL PERIODS
Cross-quarter day; Irish Quarter days; Quarter day; Quarter Days; Quarter Day; Cross-quarter days; Term day
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quarter day         
¦ noun Brit. each of four days on which some tenancies begin and end and quarterly payments fall due.
Quarter days         
In British and Irish tradition, the quarter days were the four dates in each year on which servants were hired, school terms started, and rents were due. They fell on four religious festivals roughly three months apart and close to the two solstices and two equinoxes.
Term day         
·add. ·- A day which is a term (as for payment of rent), or is a day in a term, as of the sitting of a court; ·esp., one of a series of special days, designated by scientists of different nations or stations, for making synoptic magnetic, meteorological, or other physical observations.

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Quarter days

In British and Irish tradition, the quarter days were the four dates in each year on which servants were hired, school terms started, and rents were due. They fell on four religious festivals roughly three months apart and close to the two solstices and two equinoxes.

The significance of quarter days is now limited, although rents for properties in England are often still due on the old English quarter days.

The quarter days have been observed at least since the Middle Ages, and they ensured that debts and unresolved lawsuits were not allowed to linger on. Accounts had to be settled, a reckoning had to be made and publicly recorded on the quarter days.