Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    A period of seven consecutive days of time; and, in some uses, the period beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday. See Leach v. Burr, 188 U. S. 510, 23 Sup. Ct. 393, 47 In Ed. 567; Ronkendorff v. Taylor, 4 Pet. 361, 7 L. Ed. 882; Evans v. Job, 8 Nev. 324; Bird v. Burgsteiner, 100 Ga. 486, 28 S. E. 219 ; Steinle v. Bell, 12 Abb. Prae. N. S. (N. Y.) 175; Russell v. Croy, 164 Mo. 69, 63 S. W. 849; Medlaud v. Linton, 60 Neb. 249, 82 N. W. 866.