Year and a day rule

The year and a day rule has been a common length of time for establishing differences in legal status.

The phrase "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.

It is elsewhere associated with the minimum sentence for a crime to count as a felony.

The rule and homicide

In English common law, it was held that a death was conclusively presumed not to be murder (or any other homicide) if it occurred more than a year and one day since the act (or omission) that was alleged to have been its cause. The rule also applied to the offence of assisting with a suicide.

Certain problems with this rule arise from the advance of medicine. Life support technology can extend the interval between the murderous act and the subsequent death. Application of the year and a day rule prevented murder prosecutions, not because of the merits of the case, but because of the successful intervention of doctors in prolonging life. Additionally, advances in forensic medicine may assist the court to determine that an act was a cause of death even though it was carried out fairly far in the past.

Year and a day

Year and a day can refer to:

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.

B-Boy Bouillabaisse

"B-boy Bouillabaisse" is the 15th and final track on the album Paul's Boutique by American hip hop group the Beastie Boys, released on July 25, 1989. It is a suite consisting of nine sections. Bouillabaisse is a French speciality from Marseille.

Jacob Adams of PopMatters called it "One of the great denouements in the history of pop music, a 12-minute suite in the tradition of the collection of unfinished song fragments that make up the second half of Abbey Road."

The track was produced and written by the Beastie Boys and the Dust Brothers. It was engineered by Mario Caldato and Allen Abrahamson.

Rapper Jay-Z released a sequel to "Hello Brooklyn" entitled "Hello Brooklyn 2.0" on his 2007 album American Gangster. Produced by Bigg D, the track sampled the original's bassline and drums, as well as Beastie Boys rapper Ad-Rock's vocal intro

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