Day
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
is a division of time. It is natural, and then it consists of twenty-four hours; or artificial, which contains the time from the rising until the setting of the sun, except a short time before rising and after setting.
Vide Night, and Co. Lit. 135, a.
Days are sometimes calculated exclusively, as when an act required that an appeal should be made within twenty days after a decision.
3 Penna. 200; 3 B. & A. 581; 15 Serg. & Rawle, 43.
In general, if a thing is to be done within such time after such a fact, the day of the fact shall be taken inclusively, Hob. 139; Doug. 463; 3 T. R. 623; Com. Dig. Temps. A; 3 East, 407. The law, generally, rejects fractions of days, but in some cases it takes notice of such parts. Vide Date. By the custom of some places, the word days, is understood to be working days, and not including Sundays; 3 Espin. N. P. C. 121. Vide, generally, 2 Chit. Bl. 141, note 3; 1 Chit. Pr. 774, 775; 3 Chit. Pr. 110; Lill. Reg. h. t.; 1 Rop. Leg. 518; 15 Vin. Ab. 554; Dig. 33, 1, 2; Dig. 50, 16, 2, 1; Ib. 2, 12, 8; and articles, Year; Month; Hour.