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A period of time much recognized in law. It is not in all cases limited to a precise calendar year. In Scotland, in computing the term, the year and day is to be reckoned, not by the number of days which go to make up a year, but by the return of the day of the next year chat bears the same denomination.

In the law of all the Gothic nations, it meant a year and six weeks. It is a term frequently occurring; for example, in case of an estray, if the owner challenged it not within a year and a day. ...