GBC
Time

Sennight

Modern equivalent

7 days

Derived from "seven nights," representing a precise week-long period in older legal texts.

Common in Elizabethan and medieval legal documents, sennight (similar to fortnight for two weeks) counted time by nights rather than suns.

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