When, in any law, the lapse of a number of months before or after a certain day is required, such number of months shall be computed by counting the months from such day, excluding the calendar month in which such day occurs, and including the day of the month in the last months so counted having the same numerical order as the day of the month from which the computation is made, unless there be not so many days in the last month so counted, in which case the period computed shall expire with the last day of the month so counted.
Minn. Stat. § 645.14
TIME; COMPUTATION OF MONTHS.
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Hammer v. Investors Life Insurance Co. of North America (1994)
Most recently applied in In Re the Financial Responsibility for the Mental Health Services Provided to D.F. (February 2003)
1941 c 492 s 14
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