Camps v. Taylor

The general common-law1 method for computing time, firmly settled in the United States shortly after the turn of this century as a universal rule of construction2 and adopted by this court’s early jurisprudence,3 is that, unless otherwise manifested by the contract in suit or by some applicable statute, the day of the act or event must be excluded and the last day to complete the period included This chronometric formula, which finds its most recent reaffirmation in this court’s 1983 opinion,4 stands as the State’s generally applicable rule of common law designed to promote certainty and…