Month

At common law, twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed: a uniform period, falling into a quarterly division of weeks.

2 Astronomical month.

One-twelfth of the period during which the sun passes through the zodiac. Calendar month.. A month known as January, February, March, etc.

See Calendar, 1.

Civil month

The same as solar month. Lunar month. Twenty-eight days, the period of one revolution by the moon.

Solar month

One of the months in the Gregorian calendar, of twenty-eight to thirtyone days.

Monthly.

Once each calendar month; as, a monthly trip.' The common law construed " month " as a lunar month; the general commercial law, as a calendar month. The common-law courts in time adopted the latter rule in construing commercial instruments, while they adhered to the former rule in construing common-law papers.* The term " month " is not technical. When parties have not given it a definition, and there is no legislative provision on the subject, it will be construed in its ordinary sense of calendar month. ^ When parties contract for the performance of an act during the first half of a month of thirty-one days, the act is to be done by noon of the sixteenth day." A letting by parol for a sum certain per month, without anything said about a year, constitutes a lease from month to month. If the tenant holds over for more than a year he remains a tenant from month to month; and one month's notice to him to quit is bufificient.7 "3 Bl. Com. 256-57; 3 Steph. Com. 656-57; Brown v. Commonwealth, 5 Leigh, *516 (1834); Fiott v. Commonwealth, 12 Gratt. 576 (1855). ! 2 Bl. Com. 141. s Pacific Mail S. Co. u.

United States, 18 Ct. a. 38 (1883). * See Redmond v. Glover, Dudley, 107 (Ga., 1832); 2 Whart. Contr. § 896, cases; Bish. Contr. § 1339, cases. » Sheets v. Selden, 2 Wall. 190 (1864). See also 2 Dall. 302; 4 id. 143; 3 Cranch, 0. C. 218; 21 Ala. 42; 31 Cal. 173; 5 Conn. 357; 2 Harr., Del., 548; 16 Ind. 275; 8 Me. 163; 17 Md. 260; 2 Mass. 170; 4 id. 460; 19 Pick. 532; 37 Miss. 667; 72 N. C. 146; 29 N. H. 385; 4 Wend. 612; 10 id. 393; 8 Cow. 260; 1 Johns. Cas. 99; 3 Johns. Ch. 74; 15 Johns. 119, 868; 28 N. Y. 444; 6 W. & S. 179; 6 S. & E. 539; 2 Vt. 138; 1 Wash. T. 618. » Grosvenori;. Magill, 37 111. 240 (1865). MOinJMENT.i 1.

A memorial; a permanent landmark.

Artificial momunent

A mark made by man; as, a post, or a clearing.

Mural monument

A memorial made in a wall.

Natural monument

Some natural object, like a spring, a stream, or a tree. In the determination of monuments, boundaries control courses and distances, because less liable to mistakes. But the rule ceases with the reason for it. If they are inconsistent with the calls for other monuments, and it is apparent that they were inadvertently inserted, they will be rejected as false and repugnant."

See fiu-ther Boukdary; Hearsay, 3. 2.

Something designed to perpetuate the memory of a person or event.^