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COMPUTATION

The act of computing, numbering, reckoning, or estimating. The account or estimation of time by rule of law, as distinguished from any arbitrary construction of the parties. Cowell.

Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition

counting, calculation. It is a reckoning or ascertaining the number of any thing. 2. It is sometimes used in the common law for the true reckoning or account of time. Time is computed in two ways; first, naturally, counting years, days and hours; and secondly, civilly, that is, that when the last part of the time has once commenced, it is considered as accomplished.

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