The feast of the Archangel Michael, celebrated in England on the 29th of September, and one of the usual quarter days. Miehaelmas bead eonrt. A meeting of the heritors of Scotland, at which the roll of freeholders used to be revised. See BelL-Michaelmas term. One of the four terms of the English courts of common law, beginning on the 2d day of November and ending on the 25th. 3 Steph. Comm. 562.