the eleven days

[Toby G Levy]

Laura wrote "The real issue is whether your landlord would expect the
full rent on April 1st." 

The answer is, legally no.

Read the whole British Calendar Act of 1751 at:

http://webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-British.html

the relevant extract:

"Times of Payment of Rents, Annuities, &c.:
VI. Provided also, and it is hereby further declared and enacted, That
nothing in this present Act contained shall extend, or be construed to
extend, to accelerate or anticipate the Time of Payment of any Rent or
Rents, Annuity or Annuities, or Sum or Sums of Money whatsoever, which
shall become payable by Virtue or in Consequence of any Custom, Usage,
Lease, Deed, Writing, Bond, Note, Contract or other Agreement whatsoever,
now subsisting, or which shall be made, signed, sealed or entred into, at
any Time before the said 14th Day of September, or which shall become
payable by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament now in Force, or which
shall be made before the Said 14th Day of September, or the Time of doing
any Matter or Thing directed or required by any such Act or Acts of
Parliament to be done in relation thereto; or to accelerate the Payment
of, or increase the Interest of, any such Sum of Money which shall become
payable as aforesaid;"

Tpby