Year and a day

{
  "id": "MLC-T-LAW-005283",
  "term": "Year and a day",
  "field": "Law",
  "definition": "A traditional common law period of one year and one day, used to fix the duration of certain rights and time limits. Its best-known use was in homicide, where a death occurring more than a year and a day after an injury could not be treated as caused by it. Most jurisdictions have abolished that rule, so a murder prosecution now turns on proof of causation without a fixed cutoff.",
  "see_also": [
    "year and a day rule"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/law/year-and-a-day/"
}