Year and a day

Year and a day can refer to:

• The year and a day rule, a period tied into various legal principles in a number of jurisdictions
• A Year and a Day (1998 novel), by Virginia Henley
• A Year and a Day (2004 novel), by Leslie Pietrzyk (pub. William Morrow)
• A Year and a Day (2006 novel), by Sara M. Harvey
• A poem by Elizabeth Siddall
• "Year and a Day", a song by the Beastie Boys
• A Year and a Day, a 2005 film
• A period used in handfastings – though more from the works of Sir Walter Scott than history
• The time The Owl and the Pussycat sailed for in Edward Lear's poem of that name.
• Long term assets are considered to be those held for a year and a day.
• Pagans and secret societies often use a year and a day as a minimum period of initiation or between degrees of membership.
• A Year and a Day, a 2008 mixtape by rapper T.I.

Note: a lunar year (13 lunar months of 28 days) plus a day is a solar year (365 days). Also that 366 days would be a full year even if a leap day was included.