Natural Year
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In old English law
That period of time in which the sun was supposed to revolve in its orbit, consisting of three hundred and sixty-five days and one-fourth of a day, or six hours. Bracton, fol.
359b.
NATURALE EST QUIDLIBET DISSOLVI 60 modo quo ligatur. It is natural for a thing to be unbound in the same way in which it was bound.
Jenk. Cent. Cas. 66; 4 Denio (N. Y.) 414, 417; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 785.