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Year and day (annus et dies) is a time thought in construction of our Common law, fit in many cases to determine a right in one, and to work an usucapion or prescri∣tion in another. As in a case of an estray, if the owner (Proclamations being made) cha∣lenge it not within that time, it is forfeit. So is the year and day given in case of appeal, in case of descent after entry or claim; of no claim upon a fine or writ of right at the Com∣mon law: so of a villein remaining in antient demean, of the death of a man sore bruised or wounded: of Protections; Essoins in re∣spect of the Kings service: of a wreck, and di∣vers other cases, Coke, vol. 6. fol. 107. b. And that touching the death of a man seemeth an imitation of the Civil Law. Nam si morti∣ferè fuerit vulneratus, et posteà post longum in∣tervallum

mortuus fit, inde annum nume∣rabimus secundum Iulianum. l. ait lex n. ad legem Aqui••.

Year, day, and wasto (annus, dies, et va∣stum) is a part of the Kings Prerogative, whereby he challengeth the profits of their lands and tenements for a year and a day, that are attainted of petit treason, or felony, who∣soever be Lord of the Manor, whereunto the lands or tenements do belong, and not only so, but in the end wasteth the tenement, de∣stroyeth the houses, rooteth up the woods, gardens, pasture, and ploweth up meadows, ex∣cept the Lord of the fee agree with him for the redemption of such waste, afterward resto∣ring it to the Lord of the fee, wherof you may read at large, Siawnf. prarog. cap. 16. fol. 44. et seq.