legal holiday

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Independence Day is one of America's principal legal holiday.
獨立日是美國主要法定節日之一。
And in 1941, Thanksgiving was finally sanctioned by Congress as a legal holiday, as the fourth Thursday in November.
1941年，美國國會最終通過決議，將感恩節定爲美國法定假日，的時間是每年11月的最後一個星期四。
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the two most important holidays in the Chinese calendar (the other being the Chinese Lunar New Year), and is a legal holiday in several countries.
中鞦節是其中兩個最重要的假期，在中國日歷（其他被中國辳歷新年），是一個法律假期，在幾個國家。

The 90th day after respondent mailed the notice was Thursday, July 7, 2011, which was not a legal holiday in the District of Columbia.
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Before going on holiday, ministers agreed that the time legal immigrants must wait before seeking citizenship should be halved to five years.
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As we remarked in a late December 2011 post, federal judges have no qualms with keeping lawyers, reporters, legal commentators, and other interested parties busy during the holiday season by releasing decisions in high-profile cases.
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any of several weekdays which are observed as national holidays (Also called (Canadian) statutory holidayBrit equivalent bank holiday)