The period in which the revolu-tion of the earth round the sun, and the ac-companying changes in the order of nature, are completed. Generally, when a statute si>eaks of a year, twelve calendar, and not lunar, months are intended. Cro. Jac. 166. The year is either astronomical, ecclesiastical, or regnal, beginning on the 1st of January, or 25th of March, or the day of the sover-eign’s accession, wharton
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
