New Year's Day
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The first day of January. The 25th of March was the civil and legal New Year's Day, till the alteration of the style in 1752, when it was permanently fixed at the ist of January. In Scotland the year was, by a proclamation, which bears date 27th of November, 1599, ordered thenceforth to commence in that kingdom on the ist of January instead of the 25th of March. Enc. Lond.