The act of going, or of removing goods, from one place to another. The transitus of goods from a seller commences the moment he has delivered them to ...
The copy made in one language of what has been written, or spoken in another. 2. In pleading, when a libel or an agreement, written in a foreign langu...
civ. law. The right which heirs or legatees may have of passing to their successors, the inheritance or legacy to which they were entitled, if they ha...
punishment. In the English law, this punishment is inflicted by virtue of sundry statutes; it was unknown to the common law. 2 H. Bl. 223. It is a par...
The act of child-bearing. 2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. 5 Pick. 63; 6 ...
crim. law practice. This is a technical term, which means to turnover: it is applied to an issue taken upon an indictment for a misdemeanor, and means...
pleading. This term, from the French traverser, signifies to deny or controvert anything which is alleged in the declaration, plea, replication or oth...
crim. law. This word imports a betraying, treachery, or breach of allegiance. 4 Bl. Com. 75. 2. The constitution of the United States, art. 3, s. 3, ...
Found treasure. 2. This name is given to such money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion, which having been hidden or concealed in the earth or ot...
An officer entrusted with the treasures or money either of a private individual, a corporation, a company, or a state. 2. It is his duty to use ordina...
An officer created by the act of January 18, 1837, whose duties are prescribed as follows: The treasurer shall receive and safely keep all moneys whic...
government. Before entering on the duties of his office, the treasurer is required to give bond with sufficient sureties, approved by the secretary of...
The place where treasure is kept the office of a treasurer. The term is more usually applied to the public than to a private treasury. Vide Department...
international law. A treaty is a compact made between two or more independent nations with a view to the public welfare treaties are for a perpetuity,...
A treaty of peace is an agreement or contract made by belligerent powers, in which they agree to lay down their arms, and by which they stipulate the ...
remedies. By treble costs, in the English law, is understood, 1st. The usual taxed costs. 2d. Half thereof. 3d. Half the latter; so that in effect the...
remedies. In actions arising ex contractu some statutes give treble damages; and these statutes have been liberally construed to mean actually treble ...
The name of an engine of punishment, said to be synonymous with tumbrel. (q. v.) ...
A woody plant, which in respect of thickness and height grows greater than any other plant. 2. Trees are part of the real estate while growing, and be...
domestic relations. The grandfather~s grandfather. 1 Bl. Com. 186. ...
torts. An unlawful act committed with violence, ti et armis, to the person, property or relative rights of another. Every felony includes a tres-pass,...
remedies. The name of an action, instituted for the recovery of damages, for a wrong committed against the plaintiff, with immediate force; as an assa...
practice. The action brought by the owner of goods for unlawfully taking and carrying them away, is so called. This action will lie for taking away an...
practice. The technical name of an action, instituted for the recovery of damages caused by an injury unaccompanied with force, or where the damages s...
practice. This is the name of a remedy which lies to recover damages when the defendant has unlawfully and wrongfully trespassed upon the real estate ...
practice. This is the remedy brought by the plaintiff for an immediate injury committed with force. It is distinguished from an action of trespass on ...
One who couimits a trespass. 2. A man is a trespasser by his own direct actohen he acts without any excuse; or he may be a trespasser in the execution...
weights and measures. An allowance made for the water or TRIAL, practice., The examination before a competent tribunal, according to the laws, of the...
A list of cases marked down for trial for any one term. ...
The seat of a judge; the place where he administers justice; but by this term is more usually understood the whole body of judges who compose a jurisd...
A contribution which is sometimes raised by the sovereign from his subject, to sustain the expenses of the state. It is also a sum of money paid by on...
This term was used among the Romans to denote the male descendant in the sixth degree in a direct line. It is still employed in making genealogical ta...
Eng. law. One of the four terms of the courts; it begins on the 22d day of May, and ends on the 12th of June. St. 11 G. IV., and 1 W. IV., c. 70. It w...
practice. Persons appointed according to law to try whether a person challenged to the favor is or is not qualified to serve on the jury. They do not ...
Consisting of three parts, as a deed tripartite, between A of the first part, B of the second part, and C of the third part. ...
pleading. This was formerly used in pleading instead of rebutter. 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 469, n. ...
The male ascendant in the sixth degree was so called among the Romans. For the female ascendant in the same degree, the term is tritavia. In forming g...
Rom, civ. law. Officers who had charge of the prison, through whose intervention punishments were inflicted. Sallust in Catalin. They had eight lictor...
Of small importance. It is a rule in equity that a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as being belo...
Engl. law. A customary duty or toll for weighing wool, so called because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12. ...
remedies. Trover signifies finding. The remedy is called an action of trover; it is brought to recover the value of personal chattels, wrongfully conv...
A weight less ponderous than the avoirdupois weight, in the proportion of seven thousand, for the latter, to five thousand seven hundred and sixty, to...
intern. law. An agreement between belligerent parties, by which they mutually engage to forbear all acts of hostility against each other for some time...
practice. These words are endorsed on a bill of indictment, when a grand jury, after having heard the witnesses for the government, are of opinion tha...
contracts, devises. An equitable right, title or interest in property, real or personal, distinct from its legal ownership; or it is a personal obliga...
estates. A trustee is one to whom an estate has been conveyed in trust. 2. The trust estate is not subject to the specialty or judgment debts of the t...
practice. In Massacchusetts, this is a process given by statute, in imitation of the foreign attachment of the English law. 2. By this process, a cred...
He who creates a trust. A convenient term used in the laws of Scotland. 1 Bell~s Com. 321, 6th ed. ...
The actual state of things. 2. In contracts, the parties are bound to toll the truth in their dealings, and a deviation from it will generally avoid t...
measures. In mercantile law, a tub is a measure containing sixty pounds weight of tea; and from fifty-six to eighty-six pounds of camphor. Jacob~s Law...
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