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A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
Generally excludes the day to which it relates, but this construction will yield to the manifest contrary intention of the parties.2 ' 1 Bl. Com. 448; 101 U. S. 228, 243. A charter continuing " until the first day of January " expires the thirty-flrst day of December.' " Until " or " till " the next term of court does not include any part of that term. And when time is given for filing exceptions until a particular day in a term, a filing on that day is too late.^ Otherwise held where a party had until a certain day for filing a motion for a new trial," " Until summer " ordinarily means to the first of June; " until fall." to the first of September.*