Whitsunday

Whitsunday. See PENTECOST. In Scotland it is one of the usual Terms (q.v.) for regulating the letting of houses and farms—its connection with the Sunday of Whitsun tide or with any Sunday having wholly passed from the popular consciousness. It was formerly movable, but was fixed in 1690 to mean the 15th May. In many respects local usage used to overrule the statute. Thus, in Edinburgh, the term of entry to a house was the 25th May until 1881, when by an act for Scotland it was declared to be the 28th; but rents are payable on the 15th.