Editing Leap year (section)

===29 February===
Replacement (by 29 February) of the awkward practice of having two days with the same date appears to have evolved by custom and practice; the etymological origin of the term "bissextile" seems to have been lost.{{sfnp|Pollard|1940|p=188}} In England in the fifteenth century, "29 February" appears increasingly often in legal documents{{snd}}although the records of the proceedings of the [[House of Commons of England]] continued to use the old system until the middle of the sixteenth century.{{sfnp|Pollard|1940|p=188}} It was not until the passage of the [[Calendar (New Style) Act 1750]] that 29 February was formally recognised in British law.<ref>{{Citation |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69034/page/n226/mode/1up |title=The Statutes at Large: from the 23rd to the 26th Year of King George II |publisher=Charles Bathurst |year=1765 |editor-last=Pickering |editor-first=Danby |editor-link=Danby Pickering |volume=20 |location=Cambridge |access-date=28 January 2020 |page=194}} (calendar at the end of the Act)</ref>{{efn|Though it appears in earlier Government proclamations, such as one of 1619.<ref>{{Citation |last=Bond |first=John James |url=https://archive.org/details/handybookrulesa00bondgoog/page/n6/mode/2up |title=Handy Book of Rules and Tables for Verifying Dates With the Christian Era Giving an Account of the Chief Eras and Systems Used by Various Nations...' |chapter=Preface |page=[https://archive.org/details/handybookrulesa00bondgoog/page/n22/mode/2up xix] |edition=4th|publisher=George Bell & Sons |year=1875 |location=London |author-link=John James Bond }}</ref>}}