year and day

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year and day - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  YEAR AND DAY. This period of time is particularly recognized in the law. For 
  example, when a judgment is reversed, a party, notwithstanding the lapse of 
  time mentioned in the statute of limitations pending that action, may 
  commence a fresh action within a year and a day of such reversal; 3 Chitty, 
  Pract. 107; again, after a year and a day have elapsed from the day of 
  signing a judgment, no execution can be issued until the judgment shall have 
  been revived by scire facias. Id. Bac. Ab. Execution, H; Tidd, Pr. 1103. 
       2. In Scotland, it has been decided that 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 that bears the same 
  denomination. 1 Bell's Com. 721, 5th edit.; 2 Stair, 842. See Bac. Ab. 
  Descent, I 3; Ersk. Princ. B. 1, t. 6, n. 22.