Legal glossary
What is Year and a Day?
Year and a Day — At common law, a year and a day was the period of time fixed for the claiming of rights. Failure to claim within that period could extinguish it. This is like today's statute of limitation.
Legal glossary
Year and a Day — At common law, a year and a day was the period of time fixed for the claiming of rights. Failure to claim within that period could extinguish it. This is like today's statute of limitation.