Terms beginning with "T" (352 total)

Tidd, Pr

1025. 408, 410; Yates v. People, 6 Johns. (N. ¥.) 446. 2. 937. ; 722, 895. 747; Steph. Pl. 84.—Trial at nisi prius. In practice. The ordinary kind of trial which takes place at the sittings, assizes. or circuit, ...

TIGNI IMMITTENDI

Lat. In the civfl law. The name of a servitude which is the right of inserting a beam or timber from the wall of one house into that of a nelghboring house, in order that it may rest on the latter, and that the wall of t...

TION

Actio personalis moritur cum persona. A personal right of action dies with the person... Noy, Max. 14. AGGREGATIO MENTIUM. The meeting of minds. The moment when a contract is.complete. A supposed derivation of the word ...

TIPSTAFF

any other person, the court awards a writ to the bailiff to deliver possession of the said ‘bounds of tin-work’ to the ‘bounder,’ who thereupon has the exclusive right to search for, dig, and take for his own use...

TITULUS

Lat. In the eivil law. Title; the source or ground of possession; the means whereby possession of a thing is acquired, whether such possession be lawful or

TN. W. 277

92 Am. St. “Rep. 461. <A con- Aitional delivery of a deed is one which passes the deed from the possession of the grantor, but is not to be completed by possession of the grantee, or a third person as his agent,

To point at

or point out; to set forth, or specify; to mark out or designate; as to aesign errors on a writ of error; to assign breaches of a covenant. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1168; 1 Tidd, 686.

TOGATI

Lat. In Roman law. Advocates; so called under the empire because they were required, when appearing in court to plead a cause, to wear the toga, which had then ceased to be the customary dress in Rome. Vicat.

TOLL

held of some superior lord, 4 c6., by way of tenure, (g. v.) The former clause is called the “Aabendum,” the latter, the “tenendum.” Co. Litt. 6a.

TOLL 1160

bought and sold. It is a reasonable sum of money-due to the owner of the fair or market, upon Bale of things tollable within the same. The word is used for a liberty as well to take as to be free from toll. Jacob. oe

Tolls; duties; taxes. Id

580. —Consuetudo Anglicana. The custom of England; the ancient common law, as distinguished from lez, the Roman or civil law.—Consuetudo curiss. The custom or practice of a court. Hardr. 141.—Consuetudo mercatorum....

Origin: Civil Law Read full definition →

TOPPEL

ESTOPPEL. A bar or impediment raised by the law, which precludes a man from alleging or from denying a certain fact or state of facts, In consequence of his previous allegation or denial or conduct or admission, or in co...

Tort

tort

A private or civil wrong or injury, independent of contract, for which the law provides a remedy in the form of an action for damages. Includes negligence, trespass, defamation, and nuisance.

Origin: French: tort = wrong Read full definition →

TORTION

Extortio est crimen quando quis colore officii extorgquet quod non est debitum, vel supra debitum, vel ante tempus quod est debitum. 10 Coke, 102. Extortion is a crime when, by color of office, any person extorts that wh...

Tortura

lean pessima. The -torturé or wresting of laws is the worst {kind : of torture.]} ee .Works, 434. TORTURE. ‘In old criminal — “The question; the infliction of violent bodily pati upon a person, by means of the rac...