DAUGHTER-IN-LAW. The wife of one's son.
DAY. The space of time which elapses while the earth makes a complete revolution on its axis.
A ,portion of such space of time which, by usage or law, has come to be considered as the whole for some particular purpose. The space of time which elapses between two successive midnights. 2 Bla. Corn. 141. That portion of such space of time during which the sun is shining.
Generally, in legal signification, the term included the time elapsing from one midnight to the succeed ing one; 2 Bla. Corn. 141; Kane v. Commonwealth, 29 ,Pa. 622, 33 Am. Rep. 787; see Helphenstine v. Bauk, 65 lnd. 689, 32 Am. Rep. 86; but it is also used to denote those hours during which business is ordivarily transacted (frequently called a business day); Hinton v. Locke, 6 Hill (N. Y.) 437; as well as that portion of during which the sun is above the horizon (called, sometimes, a solar day), and, in addition, that part of the morning or evening during which eumcient of its light is above for the features of a man to be reasonably discern ed; Co. 3d Inst. 63; Trull v. Wilson, 9 Mass, 164. Where a party is required to take action within a given number of days in order to secure or assert a right, the day is to consist of twenty-four hours, that is the popular and legal sense of the term Zimmerman v. Cowan, 107 I11. 631, 47 Am. Rep. 476; also in a marine insurance policy "for 30 days after arrival" means thirty successive periods of twenty four hours each, "commencing as soon as moored at anchor"; [1904] 1 K. B. 40.
By custom, the word day may be under stood to include working-days only; 3 Esp. 121; Sorensen v. Keyser, 52 Fed. 163, 2 C. C.
A. 650. In a similar manner only, a certain number of hours less than the number during which the work actually continued each day.
Hinton v. Locke, 5 hill (N. Y.) 437.
Sundays and other public holidays falling within the number of days specified by a statute for the performance of an act, are often omitted from the computation, as not being judicial days; Abrahams v. Comm., 1 Rob. (Va.) 676; Michie v. Michie'a Adm'r, 17 Gratt, (Va.) 109; Neal v. Crew, 12 Ga. 53; National Bank of the Metropolis v. Williams, 46 Mo. 17; Ccupfield v. Cook, 92 Mich. 626, 62 N. W. I031; McChesney v. People, 146 Ill. 614, 34 N.
E. 431; Danielson v. Fuel Co., 65 Fed. 49; Sorensen v. Keyser, 52 Fed. 163, 2 C. C. A. 650. But see Miles v. McDermott, 31 Cal. 271. Where the last day of the six months within which an appeal or writ of error may be taken to review in the circuit court of ap veaia, the judgment or decree of a lower court, falls on Sunday, the appeal cannot be taken or the writ sued out on any subsequent day; Johnson v. Mey ers, 64 Fed. 417, 4 C. C. A. 399. When the day of per formance of contracts, other than instrumenta upon Which days of grace are allowed, falls on Sunday, or ether public holiday, it is not counted, and the con tract may be performed on Monday; Salter v. Burt, 20 Wend. (N. Y.) 205, 32 Am. Dec. 630; Stryker v. Vanderbilt, 27 N. J. L. 68; Johnson v. Merritt, 60 Minn. 303, 62 N. W. 863. See Broome v. wellington, 1 Sandf. (N. Y.) 664.
The time for completing commercial contracts is not limited to banking hours; Price v. Tucker, 5 La. Ann. 614.
A day is generally, but not always, re garded in law as a point of time; and frac tions will not he recognized; 2 B. & Aid. 586; In re Welman, 20 Vt. 653, Fed. Cas. No. 17,407; Seward v, Hayden, 150 Mass. 158,