of the bis-sextile or leap year. The title of a statute passed ln the twenty-first year of Henry III., which in fact, however, is nothing more than a sort of writ or direction to the justices of the bench. Instructing them how the extraor-dlnary day in the leap year was to be reckoned in cases where persons had a day to appear at the distance of a year, as on the essoin de malo lecti, and the like. It was thereby directed that the additional day should, together with that which went be-fore, be reckoned only as one, and so, of course, within the preceding year. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 266