Half-Year
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In the computation of time, a half-year is not the same as six months, but "'Half a year' containeth one hundred and eighty-two dayes; for the odde houres, in legall computation are rejected."
Co. Litt. 135b; Rev. St. N. Y. pt. 1, c. 19, tit. 1, § 3.
But in Woodf. (348), a half-year is stated to be 183 days. "It is clear from a series of cases running back as far as the time of Henry VIII., that 'half a year's notice' means notice for half a year, and not for six months."
15 Q. B. D. 405.