Year and a day
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Year and a day can refer to:
- the Year and a day rule, a period tied into various legal principles in a number of jurisdictions
- A Year and a Day (1998 novel), by Virginia Henley
- A Year and a Day (2004 novel), by Leslie Pietrzyk
- A Year and a Day (2006 novel), by Sara M. Harvey
- A poem by Elizabeth Siddall
- A song by the Beastie Boys
- A Year and a Day (film), a 2005 movie
- A period used in handfastings - though more from the works of Sir Walter Scott than history
- The time The Owl and the Pussycat sailed for in Edward Lear's poem of that name.
- 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.
Note: a lunar year (13 lunar months of 28 days) plus a day is a solar year (365 days). Also that 366 days would be a full year even if a leap day was included.
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