Year and a day rule
Common length of time for establishing differences in legal status / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The year and a day rule is associated with the former common law standard that death could not be legally attributed to acts or omissions that occurred more than a year and a day before the death.
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It is elsewhere associated with the minimum sentence for a crime to count as a felony.