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Candlemas

Modern equivalent

February 2nd

A traditional Scottish legal term day and calendar quarter day falling on February 2nd.

Marking the Feast of the Presentation of Christ, Candlemas was one of the four principal Scottish term days. Historically, it governed property leases, domestic servant hiring fairs, and the winter settlement of financial debts across rural Britain.

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