Bissextile

The day which is added every fourth year to the month of February, in order to make the year agree with the course of the sun. It was called "bissextile" because in the Roman calendar it was fixed on the sixth day before the calends of March (whiqh The first was called bissextus prior, and the other bissextus posterior, but the latter was properly called "bissextile" or "intercalary" day. BLACK ACRE and WHITE ACRE. Terms used by the old writers to distinguish one parcel of land from another, to avoid ambiguity, as well as the inconvenience of a full description. They are mere names of convenience, adopted, as "A." and "B." are, to distinguish persons or things under similar circumstances.