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though with some alteration ; for they still 
retained their antient months, with the five 
additional days; and every fourth year they 
intercalated another day, for the 6 hours, at 
the end of the year, or between the 28 th and 
29th of August. Also, the beginning of their 
year, or the first day of the month Thoth, 
answered to the 29th of August of the Julian 
year, or to tlie 30th if it happened to be leap- 
year. 
The antient Greek year, was a lunar year, 
consisting of 12 months, which at first had 
each 30 days, then alternately 29 and 30 
days, computed from the first appearance of 
the new moon; with the addition of an em- 
bolismic month of 30 days, every 3d, 5th, 
8th, 11th, 14th, 1 6th, and 19tn year of a 
cycle of 19 years ; in order to keep the new 
and full moons to the same terms or seasons 
of the year. 
Their year commenced with that new 
moon which was nearest to the summer sol- 
stice. And the order of the months, with 
the number of their days, were as follow : 1. 
Ex«To^s,C«iwy, of 29 days ; 2. MriTwyorviw 30 ; 
3. . Bor.Spo/Aicoy 29; 4. Mxi^axrn^iyv 30, 5. 
Ilu«»£%piwv 29 6 rio<T£i§EW* 30 , ?, Tos^nXiwy 
29 5 8. Ay0£{"«fi£uy 30; 9 Ex«p-n£oX(yv 29; 
l(j, Mayu^iuy 30: 11. Oap«ynXiwv ; 12 2>nf>o- 
popiw* 30. if t many of the Greek nations 
had other names for their months. 
The ancient Jewish year is a lunar year, 
usually consisting of 11 months, containing 
alternately JO and 29 days. And it was 
made to agree with the solar year, by adding 
11, and sometimes 12 days, at the end of the 
year, or by an emboli smic month , The order 
and quantities of the months were as follow ; 
I. Nisan or Abib, 30 days ; 2. Jiar or Zius, 
29 ; 3. Siban or Sievan 30 ; 4. Thamuz or 
Tamuz 29 ; 5. Ab30; 6. Elul29; 7. Tisri 
or Ethanim 30 ; 8. Marchesvam or Bui 29; 
9. Gisleu 30 ; 10. Tebeth 29 ; 11. Sabat or 
Schebeth 30; 12. Adar 30, in the embo- 
lismic year, but 29 in the common year. 
Note, in the defective year, Cisleu was only 
29.. days; and in the redundant year, Mar- 
chesvam was 30. 
The modern Jewish year is likewise lunar, 
consisting of 12 months in common years, but 
of 13 in embolismic years ; which, in a cycle 
of 19 years, are the 3d, 6th, 8th, 11th, 1 4th, 
17th, and 191 h. Its beginning is fixed to the 
new moon next after the autumnal equinox. 
The names and order of the months, with 
the number of the days, areas follow: 1. 
Tisri 30 days ; 2. Marchesvam 29; 3. Cisleu 
30 ; 4. Tebeth 29 ; 5. Schebeth 30 ; 6. 
Adar 29 ; 7. Yeadar, in the embolismic year, 
30; 8. Nisan 30 ; 9. liar 29; 10. Sivan30; 
II. Thamuz 29; 12. Ab, 30 ; 13.. Elul 
29 . 
The Syrian year, is a solar one, having its 
beginning fixed to the beginning of October 
in the Julian year ; from which it only differs 
in the names of the months, the quantities 
being the same, as follow: 1. Tishrin, an- 
swering to our October, and containing 31 
days; 2. Latter Tishrin, containing, like 
November, 30 days; 3. Canun 31 : 4. Lat- 
ter Canun 31 ; 5. Shabat 28, or 29 in a leap 
year; 6. Adar 31 ; 7. Nisan 30; 8. Aiyar 
31; 9. Haziram 30; 10. Thamuz 31; 11. 
Ab 31 ; 12. Elul 30. 
The Persian year, is a solar one, of 365 
days, consisting of 12 months of 30 days 
each, with 5 intercalary days added at the 
end. The months are as follow: 1. Asrudia 
meh ; 2. Ardihascht meh; 3. Cardi meh ; 
4.. Thir meh ; 5- Merded meh ; 6. Schaba- 
rir meh; 7. Mehar meh; 8. Aben meh; 
9. Adar meh; 10. Di meh; 11. Behen 
meh ; 12. Assirer meh. This year is the 
same as the Egyptian Nabonassarean, and is 
called the Yesdegerdic year, to distinguish it 
from the fixed solar year, called the Gelalean 
year, which the Persians began to use in the 
year 1079, and which was formed by an in- 
tercalation, made six or seven times in four 
years, and then once every 5th year. 
The Arabic, Mahometan, and Turkish 
year, called also the year of the Plegira, is a 
lunar year, equal to 354 days, 8 hours, 48 
minutes, and consists of 12 months, contain- 
ing alternately 30 and 29 days : although 
sometimes it contains 13 months ; the names 
&c. being as follow: 1. Muharram of 30 
days ; 2. Saphar 29 ; 3. Rabia 30 ; 4. Lat- 
ter Rabia 29; 5. Jornada 30; 6. Latter 
Jornada 29 ; 7. Rajab 30 ; 8. Shaaban 29 ; 
9- Ramadan 30 ; 10. Shawal29; 11. Dul- 
kaadah 30; 12. Dnlheggia 29, but in the 
embolismic year 30. An intercalary day is 
added every 2d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 15th, 
18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, 29th, in a cycle of 29 
years. The months commence with the first 
appearance of the new moons after the con- 
junctions. 
Ethiopic yrear, is a solar year perfectly 
agreeing with the Actiac, except in the names 
of the months, which are : 1. Mascaram; 2. 
Tykympt; 3. Hydar; 4. Tyshas ; 5. Tyr; 
6. Jacatil ; 7. Magabit ; 8. Mijazia ; 9. 
Ginbat ; 10. Syne; 1 1. Hamel ; 12. Hahase. 
Intercalary days 5. It commences with the 
Egyptian year, on the 29th of August of the 
Julian year. 
YESDEGERDIC Year. See Persian 
Y EAR. 
Y ear an.d day, is a time that determines 
a right in many cases ; and in some works an 
usurpation, and in others a prescription ; as 
in case of an estray, if the owner, procla- 
mation being made, challenges it not within 
the time, it is forfeited. 
So is the year and day given in case 
of appeal ; in case of descent after entry 
or claim, if no claim upon a fine or writ of 
right at the common law : so of a villain re- 
maining in ancient demesne ; of a man sore 
bruised or wounded ; of protections ; essoins 
in respect of the king’s service ; of a wreck ; 
and divers other cases. Co. 6. Rep. Fol. 
107. 
Yearbooks, reports in a regular series, 
from Ed. II. inclusive, to the time of Henry 
VIII., which were taken by the prothonotaries 
of the court, at the expence of the crown, 
and published annually. 
Year day and waste, is a part of the 
king’s prerogative whereby he challenges 
the profits of their lands and tenements for a 
year and a day, that are attainted of petty 
treason or felony ; whoever is lord of the 
manor where the lands or tenements belong ; 
and not only so, but in the end may waste 
the tenements, destroy the houses, root up 
the woods, garden, and pasture, and plough 
up the meadows, except the lord of the fee 
agrees with him for redemption of such 
waste, afterward restoring it to the lord of 
the fee. Staundf. Prauog. c. 16. 
YEARS, estate for. Tenant for term of 
years, is where a main lets lands or tenements 
to another, for a certain term of years agreed 
upon between the lessor and lessee ; and 
when the lessee enters by force of the lease, 
then he is tenant for term of years. Litt. 
Sect. 58. 
If tenements are let to a man for the term 
of half a year, or for a quarter of a year, or 
any less tune ; this lessee is respected as te- 
nant for years, and is styled so in some legal 
proceedings; a year being the shortest term, 
which the law in this case takes notice of. 
Litt. Sect. 67. 
Generally, every estate which must expire at 
a period certain and prefixed, by whatever 
words created, is an estate for years ; and there- 
fore this estate is frequently called a term ; 
because its duration or continuance, is bound- 
ed, limited, and determined. 2 Black. 143. 
For every such estate must have a certain 
beginning, and certain end. If no day of 
commencement is named in the creation of 
this estate, it begins from the making, or de- 
livery of the lease. A lease for so many 
years as such an one shall live, is void from 
the beginning; for it is neither certain, nor 
can it ever be reduced to a certainty, during 
the continuance of the lease. Id. 
And the same doctrine holds, if a person 
makes a lease of his glebe for so many years 
as he shall continue parson of such a church, 
for this is still more uncertain. But a lease 
for twenty or more years, if the parson shall 
so long live, or if he shall so long continue 
parson, is good ; for there is a certain period 
fixed, beyond which it cannot last, though 
it may determine sooner, on the parson’s 
death, or his ceasing to be parson there. 2 
Black. 143. 
An estate for years, though ever so manv,_ 
is inferior to an estate for life. For air estate 
for life, though it should be only for the life 
of another person, is a freehold ; but an es- 
tate, though for a thousand years, is only a 
chattel, and reckoned part of the personal, 
estate. Id. 
Hence it follows, that a lease for years may 
be made to commence in futuro, though a 
lease for life cannot. As if I grant lands to 
one from Michaelmas next for twenty years, 
this is good; but to hold from Michaelmas 
next for the term of his natural life, is void. 
Id. 
For no estate of freehold can commence in 
futuro, because it cannot be created at com- 
mon law without livery of seisin, or corporal 
possession of the land ; and corporal posses- 
sion cannot be given of an estate now, which, 
is not to commence now, but hereafter. And 
because no livery of seisin is necessary for a 
lease for years, such a lessee is not said to be 
seized, or to have true legal seisin of the 
lands. N or kid eed does the bare lease, vest 
any estate in the lessee, but only gives him a 
right of entry on the tenement, which right is 
called his interest in the term ; but when he 
has actually so entered, and thereby accept- 
ed the grant, the estate is then and not before 
vested in him ; and he is possessed, not pro- 
perly of the land, but of the term of years, 
the possession or seisin of the land remaining 
still in him. who has the freehold. 2 Black. 
YELLOW. See Dyeing. 
Yellow-hammer.' See Emberiza. 
YEOMAN, is defined to be one that has 
fee land of 40.?, a-year ; who was thereby 
heretofore qualified to serve on juries, and 
