(A) A measure of length, containing three feet, or thirty-six inches. (B) estates. A piece of land enclosed for the use and accommodation of the inhabitants of a house. … [Read more...]

or virgata terra is a quantity of land, said by some to be twenty acres, but by Coke to be of uncertain extent. … [Read more...]

Yes and no. According to a charter of Athelstan, the people of Itipon were to be believed in all actions or suits upon their yea and nay, without the necessity of taking any oath. Brown. … [Read more...]

The period in which the revolution of the earth round the sun, and the accompanying changes in the order of nature, are completed. Generally, when a statute speaks of a year, twelve calendar, and not lunar, months are intended. Cro. Jac. 166. The year is either astronomical, ecclesiastical, or regnal, beginning on the 1st of January, or 25th of March, or the day of the … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]