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	Year and a day rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The year and a day rule was a principle of English law holding that a death was conclusively presumed not to be murder (or any other homicide) if it occurred more than a year and one day since the act (or omission) that was alleged to have been its cause.
		The abolition of the rule does not relieve the prosecution of its obligation to prove, in cases of murder, that the accused intended to cause either death or serious injury.
		Principally, the rule was abolished due to the advancement of medicine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Year_and_a_day_rule (575 words)

	Why Leap Years?
		Year 2008 is the next leap year, with 29 days in February.
		A leap year is a year with one extra day inserted into February, the leap year is 366 days with 29 days in February as opposed to the normal 28 days.
		This actually means year 2000 is kind of special, as it is the first time the third rule is used in many parts of the world.
	www.timeanddate.com /date/leapyear.html (900 words)

	Year-and-a-day rule headed to high court - Boston.com
		Rather, it's time that passed between the day Langlais was shot and the day of his death, which a medical examiner ruled was due to the gunshot wounds -- more than two years.
		The fact that Langlais survived until September of 1973 brings into play an ancient standard from the English common law that said if a person lives more than a year and a day after he is attacked, the attacker can't be charged in the killing.
		"The question of law regarding the common-law 'year and a day rule' is of sufficient importance or doubt to justify this appeal," reads part of their two-paragraph court filing, filed late last week in Vermont District Court in Burlington.
	www.boston.com /news/local/vermont/articles/2006/04/20/year_and_a_day_rule_headed_to_high_court (440 words)

	Leap Year -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
		A leap year is a year in which an extra day is added to the calendar in order to synchronize it with the seasons.
		In a leap year, the extra day (known as a leap day) is added at the end of February, giving it 29 instead of the usual 28 days.
		The leap year was introduced in the Julian calendar in 46 BC.
	scienceworld.wolfram.com /astronomy/LeapYear.html (413 words)

	minster.html
		The issue here is whether we should abrogate the common law rule of ìa year and a dayî, which bars a prosecution for murder when the victim dies more than a year and a day after being injured.
		He was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for attempted murder and received a 10 year concurrent sentence for the handgun violation.
		Minster argues that there are legitimate justifications for the ruleís continued application; moreover, because of the number of alternatives available to replace the year and a day rule, a change in the rule should be left to the legislature.
	www.ric.edu /tschmeling/courses/minster.html (1557 words)

	Year and a day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A novel by Virginia Henley A Year and a day (novel)
		Long term assets are considered to be those held for a year and a day.
		Pagans and secret societies often use a year and a day as a minimum period of initiation or between degrees of membership.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Year_and_a_day (219 words)

	Virginia's 21-Day Rule
		In Virginia, under the 21- Day Rule, no court is permitted to review any newly discovered evidence presented 21 days or more after the initial sentencing In the 2001 Annual Quality of Life in Virginia Survey conducted by the Center for Survey Research at Virginia Tech, 82.7% of Virginians disagree with this law.
		Virginia’s 21-Day Rule, as it has come to be called, prevents the admission of evidence that at the time of sentencing may have appeared inconsequential or inconclusive due to underdeveloped technology or facts.
		The 21-Day rule is a court imposed rule under Rule 1:1 of the Virginia Supreme Court which explicitly states that trial courts lose jurisdiction over their cases twenty-one days after an individual has been sentenced.
	www.vadp.org /21day.htm (1597 words)

	bibleonly.org - Printer Friendly Article:A Year for a Day
		In both cases, the thought in the Hebrew is "according to the number of days … a day for a year".
		In Numbers, the 40 days of spying are symbolic of years of wandering, while in Ezekiel, the days of lying down are symbolic of years of literal iniquity.
		The oppression of Abraham's descendents in Egypt was to be 400 years (Gen 15:13).
	www.bibleonly.org /proph/dan/prem2-prn.htm (2886 words)

	U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The issue in this Fourteenth Amendment case is whether the retroactive application of a judicial abolishment of the criminal rule known as "the year and a day rule" violates the Due Process Clause.
		Rogers argued that the year-and-a-day rule was applicable to his case.
		The year-and-a-day rule provides that death must occur within a year and a day from the inflicting of the mortal wound to constitute punishable homicide.
	www.willamette.edu /law/wlo/us-supreme/99cases/99-6218.htm (183 words)

	ROGERS V. TENNESSEE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Held: The Tennessee Supreme Court’s retroactive application to petitioner of its decision abolishing the year and a day rule did not deny petitioner due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
		(b) The Tennessee court’s abolition of the year and a day rule was not unexpected and indefensible.
		There is nothing to indicate that abolition of the rule in petitioner’s case represented an exercise of the sort of unfair and arbitrary judicial action against which the Due Process Clause aims to protect.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/99-6218.ZS.html (886 words)

	Murder charge to stand in 'delayed homicide' - Boston.com
		A judge has scrapped what she called an "archaic remnant" from ancient legal rulings that a person can't be charged with homicide if the victim dies more than a year and a day after the attack.
		The 800-year-old rule from English common law says the victim of a homicide must die within a year and a day of the injury for the attacker to be prosecuted.
		"The year and a day rule is an archaic remnant from an era when medical evidence could not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that a death was proximately caused by the defendant," Levitt wrote.
	www.boston.com /news/local/vermont/articles/2006/01/11/murder_charge_to_stand_in_delayed_homicide?mode=PF (371 words)

	Year-Day Principle for interpreting predictive prophecy
		This is simply a case of correspondence: the number of years of suffering in the wilderness is going to correspond to the number of days the spies had observed Canaan.
		Those days merely correspond to the number of years over which Israel and Judah are going to bear (the punishment for) their iniquity.
		Applying it to the thousand years would appear silly to most people because it is difficult to conceive of a prophecy covering a span of 360,000 years.
	www.goodnewsunlimited.org.au /yr_day.htm (1399 words)

	1031articles - The “Year-and-a-Day” Rule: Great advice, but it's not The Law
		The "year-and-a-day" rule is only a guideline divined from a few Tax Court decisions, a non-binding IRS ruling stating that holding property for at least two years in a particular instance was fine, and common sense considerations - for instance, long-term capital gains kick-in after holding property for a year.
		We have typically found that if you hold property for over a year, the IRS is less likely to question the your motivation in entering into the Exchange.
		The fact that you held your Property for less than a year is not automatic evidence that your Exchange will fail -- it is merely one piece of your larger financial picture.
	www.expert1031.com /1031facts/articles/azreia0505.html (353 words)

	Leap Year / Leap Day
		The day which is added every fourth year to the month of February, in order to make the year agree with the course of the sun.
		Leap year, consisting of 366 days, and happening every fourth year, by the addition of a day in the month of February, which in that year consists of twenty-nine days.
		Linguistic consistency demands, therefore, that the additional second added at the end of the year not be referred to as a leap second nor lend the "leap" designation to the last minute or hour but rather to the last day.
	www.emailman.com /leapday (876 words)

	The Doomsday Rule
		The Doomsday rule is a method devised by John Conway for computing the day of the week of any given date.
		For February, Doomsday is the 28th in an ordinary year and the 29th in a leap year.
		In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII decreed a modification of the Julian Calendar.
	www.cst.cmich.edu /users/graha1sw/Pub/Doomsday/Doomsday.html (2547 words)

	Rogers v. Tennessee (2001) [99-6218] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On appeal, Rogers argued that the Tennessee common law "year and a day rule," under which no defendant could be convicted of murder unless his victim died by the defendant's act within a year and a day of the act, persisted and precluded his conviction.
		In a 5-4 opinion delivered by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the Court held that the Tennessee Supreme Court's retroactive application to a defendant of its decision abolishing the year-and-a-day rule did not deny Rogers due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
		"The Tennessee court's abolition of the year and a day rule was not unexpected and indefensible," wrote Justice O'Connor.
	www.oyez.org /oyez/resource/case/1190 (290 words)

	Leaping for Leap Day, February 29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Every fourth year an extra day is added to the end of the month, creating a special day known as leap day, or February 29.
		The leap day was created by Roman Emperor Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. Astronomers had calculated the time it takes for the Earth to circle the sun, known as a solar year.
		The new rule said that a leap day would be added every four years except in century years (years ending with two zeros)—unless that year could be evenly divided by 400.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /kids/2004/02/leapyear.html (602 words)

	How to determine the day of the week, given the month, day and year
		Each normal year, the day of January 1 advances by one; for each leap year it advances by two.
		Because the leap year pattern also recurs with a four hundred year cycle, a simple table of four hundred elements, and single modulus, suffices to determine the day of the week (in the Gregorian Calendar), and does it much faster than all the other algorithms proposed.
		Even ignoring the pattern over for a period of years this is still useful since you can generally figure out what day of the week a given date is on faster than someone else can look it up with a calender if the calender is not right there.
	www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Mathlinks/Weekdays.html (884 words)

	Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996 is a short Act of Parliament which abolished the year and a day rule in English law.
		The year and a day rule was an ancient rule of the common law which created a conclusive presumption that a death was not murder (or any other form of homicide) if it occurred more than a year and a day since the act (or omission) that was alleged to have been its cause.
		The precise scope of the rule was unclear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Law_Reform_(Year_and_a_Day_Rule)_Act_1996 (327 words)

	Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1995 Week 2 Hansard (11 May) Page 427 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At present a person cannot be convicted of murder in the Territory if the victim dies more than a year and a day after the infliction of the injury which caused the death.
		The rule might also prevent a conviction for murder where a person deliberately infects another person with a disease which has long-term life threatening consequences.
		There are separate offences where the child is under 10 years of age and where the child is between 10 and 16 years of age, and those offences relating to the younger age group carry more severe penalties, obviously.
	www.hansard.act.gov.au /hansard/1995/week02/427.htm (483 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: New Year's Superstitions
		Because January 1 is the first day of the new year, we have drawn a connection between what we do on that day and our fate throughout the rest of the year.
		Also, do not do the laundry on New Year's Day, lest a member of the family be 'washed away' (die) in the upcoming months.
		Also, avoid crying on the first day of the year lest that activity set the tone for the next twelve months.
	www.snopes.com /holidays/newyears/newyears.asp (1208 words)

	Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996
		A print version is also available and is published by The Stationery Office Limited as the Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996, ISBN 0 10 541996 6.
		An Act to abolish the "year and a day rule" and, in consequence of its abolition, to impose a restriction on the institution in certain circumstances of proceedings for a fatal offence.
		(2) Section 1 does not affect the continued application of the rule referred to in that section to a case where the act or omission (or the last of the acts or omissions) which caused the death occurred before the day on which this Act is passed.
	www.opsi.gov.uk /acts/acts1996/1996019.htm (663 words)

	Three-Year Rule
		Section 2035 of the tax code, which stipulates that assets that have been gifted through an ownership transfer, or assets for which the original owner has relinquished power, are to be included in the gross value of the original owner's estate if the transfer took place within three years of his or her death.
		This rule prevents individuals from gifting assets to their descendants or other parties once death is imminent in an attempt to avoid estate taxes.
		The rule does not include all assets gifted or transferred in that three-year period and is mainly focused on insurance policies or assets in which the deceased retains an interest.
	www.investopedia.com /terms/t/threeyearrule.asp (260 words)

	Major League Baseball : Events : First-Year Player Draft Rules
		These Rules are detailed, but the basic eligibility criteria can be described as follows: Generally, a player is eligible for selection if the player is a resident of the United States or Canada and the player has never before signed a Major League or Minor League contract.
		A player who is drafted and does not sign with the Club that selected him may be drafted again at a future year's Draft, so long as the player is eligible for that year's Draft.
		A player who is eligible to be selected and is passed over by every Club becomes a free agent and may sign with any Club, up until one week before the next Draft, or until the player enters, or returns to, a four-year college full-time or enters, or returns to, a junior college.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/draftday/rules.jsp (495 words)

	January 1 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This day was adopted as the first day of the Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600.
		The Gregorian calendar as promulgated in 1582 did not specify that January 1 was to be either New Year's Day or the first day of its numbered year.
		Although England began its numbered year on March 25 (Lady Day or Annunciation Day), between the 13th century and 1752, January 1 was called New Year's Day, and was, with Christmas and occasionally Twelfth Night, a holiday when gifts were exchanged.
	january-1.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (1681 words)

	Is The "Year-and-a-Day" Rule The Law? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Recently, we encountered a great deal of confusion and consternation concerning a 1031 exchange, and the so-called "year-and-a-day" rule.
		The year-and-a-day rule is really a guideline -- though a sound guideline.
		The âYear-and-a-Dayâ rule is great advice, but it is not The Law.
	www.icoloradorealestate.com /investors/publish/printer_5.html (145 words)

	OSCN Found Document:Elements
		[Fourth, the death occurred within a year of the infliction of the injury causing death].
		Although the Legislature abolished the common law year and a day rule by enacting 21 O.S. Supp.
		1995, § 694(B) ("The rule of the common law providing that a death occurring after a year and a day from the date of criminal corporal injury is irrebuttably presumed not to be the result of that injury is abolished."), the requirement remains in the negligent homicide statute, 47 O.S. Citationizer
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/deliverdocument.asp?citeID=81160 (168 words)

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