Other Legal and Quasi-legal Uses of Year and A Day
- The period of a year and a day was a convenient period to represent a significant amount of time. Its use was generally as a jubilee or a permanence.
- Historically in England, the period that a couple must be married for a spouse to have claim to a share of inheritable property.
- In medieval Europe, a runaway serf became free after a year and a day.
- When a judgment has been reversed, a fresh action may be lodged within a year and a day, regardless of the statute of limitations. U.S.
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“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
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“To the Ocean now I fly,
And those happy climes that ly
Where day never shuts his eye,
Up in the broad fields of the sky:”
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