T. &
532, 18 Sun. Ct. 183, 42 L. Ed. 568. voluntary confession is one made spontaneously by a person accused of crime, free from the influence of any extraneous disturbing cause, and in particular, not influenced, or extorted...
Terms beginning with "T" (352 total)
T. & T. Co., 66 Neb
67, 92 N. W. 190; Wells,
T. 547, 538 S. W. 330
DISSUADE. In criminal law. To advise and procure a person not to do an act.
T. B. Mon
(Ky.) 388, 393.—Common property. A term sometimes applied to lands owned by a municipal corporation and held in trust for the common use of the inhabitants. Comp.
T. Co
v. New York, 7 Hill (N. Y.) 283; State
T04, 32 Pac
784.—Placer location. A placer cat located and occupied on the public do-
T1; Ives v. Kimball, 1 Mich
313; Palmer v. Albee, 50 Iowa, 431; Petrie v. Hamilton College, 158 N. Y. 458, 53 N. E. 216. Synonyms. Ambiguity of language is to be disttaguiched from unintelligibility and inaccuracy, for words cannot be said to be am...
TABELLA
Lat. In Roman law. A tabfet. Used in voting, and in giving the verdict of juries; and, when written upon, commonly translated “ballot.” The laws which introduced and regulated the mode of voting by ballot were called...
TABELLIO
Lat. In Roman law. An officer corresponding in some respects to a notary. His business was to draw legal instruments, (contracts, wills, etc.,) and witness their execution. Calvin.
TABERNARIUS
Lat. In the civil law. A shop-keeper. Dig. 14, 3, 5, 7.
TABLB OF ABBREVIATIONS
B McPherson, Lee, & Bell's:
TABLB OF ABBREVIATIONS Wyatt, W. & A’B.I.P. & M
Wood Decr. Wood’s (Decrees in) Tithe Cases.
TABLD OF ABBREVIATIONS
Bynuk. Obs. Jur. Rom. : MBlyer.
TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION. In
Louisiana. A list of creditors of an insokvent estate, stating what each is entitled to.
TABULA
Lat. In the civil law. A table or tablet; a thin sheet of wood, which, when covered with wax, was used for writing.
TABULA IN NAUFRAGIO
Lat. A plank in a shipwreck. This phrase is used metaphorically to designate the power subsisting in a third mortgagee, who took without notice of the second mortgage, to acquire the first incumbrance, attach it to his o...
TABULARIUS
Lat. bellio. Calvin.
TABULZ
Lat. In Roman law. Tables. Writings of any kind used as evidences of a transaction. Brissonius.
TACIT
T he would have no right to do but in his capacity as heir. Civ. Code La. 1900, art. —Tacit hypothecation. In the civil law, a species of lien or mortgage which is created by. operation of law without any express agre...
TACITE
Lat. Silently; impliedly; tacitly.
TACTIS SACROSANOTIS
Lat. In old English law. Touching the holy evangelists.
TAIL, ESTATE IN
TACKSMAN. In Scotch law. A tenant or lessee; one to whom a tack is granted. 1 the word “general,” in such case, implying that there is no other restriction upon the descent of the estate than that it must go in the ...
TAILLE
Fr. In old French law. A tax or assessment levied by the king, or by any great lord, upon his subjects, usually taking the form of an imposition upon the owners of real estate. Brande.
TAKE
1. To lay hold of; to gain or receive into possession; to seize; to deprive one of the possession of; to assume ownership. Thus, it is a constitutional provision that a man’s property shall not be taken for public uses...
Tal
(or Talb.). English Chancery. —
TALES
Lat. Such; such men. When, by means of challenges or any other cause, a
TALES DE CIRCUMSTANTIBUS. So
many of the by-standers. The emphatic words of the old writ awarded to the sheriff to make up a deficiency of jurors out of the persons present in court. 8 Bl. Comm. 365.
TALIO
‘process. Thus, a capias commands the of- Lat. In the civil law. Like for like; punishment in the same kind; the pun-
TALIS INTERPRETATIO 1136
ishment of an injury by an act of the same kind, as an eye for an eye, a limb for a limb, ete. Calvin.
TALITER PROCESSUM EST. Upon
pleading the judgment of an inferior court, the proceedings preliminary to such judgment, and on which the same was founded, must, to some extent, appear in the pleading, but the rule is that they may be alleged with a g...
TALLA
CATANEUS. A tenant in capite. A tenant holding immediately of the crown. Spelman.
TALLAGIUM
L. Lat. A term including all taxes. 2 Inst. 532; People v. Brooklyn, 9
TALLIA
L. Lat. A tax or tribute; tallage; a share taken or cut out of any one’s income or means. Spelman.
TAMEN
Lat. Notwithstanding; nevertheless; yet.
Tampa Waterworks Co
y. Cline, 37 Fila. 586, 20 South. 780, 33 L. R. A. 376, 53 Am. St. Rep. 262.—Tide waters. See TIDE.—Water-baileiff. The title of an officer, in port towns in England, appointed for the sea ng of ships. Also of an off...
Tams v. Com., 6 Metc
(Mass.) 235; Kennedy vy. People, 1 Cow. Cr, Rep. (N..¥.) 119.—AHas writ. An alas writ is a second writ issued in the same cause, where a former writ of the same kind had been issued without effect In such case, the la...
Tan
(or Taney). Taney’s United States Circuit Court Reports.
Tanner. Tanner's Reports, vols
8-14 Indiana ;—Tanner’s Reports, vols. 13-17 Utah.
TANNERIA
TALLEY, or TALLY. A stick cut into two parts, on each whereof is marked, with notches or otherwise, what is due between debtor and creditor. It was the ancient mode of keeping accounts. One part was held by the creditor,...
TANTEO
TANTEO. Span. In Spanish law. Preemption. White, New. Recop. b. 2, tit. 2, e 3.
Tap
(or Tapp.). Tappan's Ohio Reports.
Tarbell v. Railroad Co., 73 Vt
347, 51 Atl. 6, 5G L. R. A. 656, 87 Am. St. Rep. 734; Hartford F. Ins. Co. v. Chicago, etc., R. Co., 175 U.
TARDE VENIT
Lat. In practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff to a writ, when it came into his hands too late .to be executed before the return-day.
Tatnall, 7 Houst
(Del.) 287, 31 Atl. 879; Esberg-Bachman Tobacco Co. v. Heid (D. C.) 62
Taughlin, 76 Cal
60, 18 Pac. 100, 9 Am. St.
Taun
(or Taunt.). Common Pleas Reports.
Taunt
496. 279. Smith v. Ladd, 41 Me. 314. 168. —Ast of honor. When a bill has been pro tested, and a third perron wishes to take it up, or accept it, for the “honor” (credit) of one or more of the parties, the notary ...
TAURI LIBERI LIBERTAS. Iat. A
common bull; because he was free to all the tenants within such a manor, liberty, etc.
TAX
repetition or iteration, which is repeating the same sentence in the same or equivalent terms; the latter is sometimes either excusable or necessary in an argument or address; the former (tautology) never. Wharton. shar...
TAXA. IL
Lat. A tax. Spelman.