Totum prefertur unicuique parti
3 Coke, 41. The whole is preferable to any single part.
Terms beginning with "T" (352 total)
Touch
311.—Confirmatio perficiens. A confirmation which makes valid a wrongful and defeasible title, or makes a conditional estate absolute. Shep. Touch. 311. 161. ee 476.
TOUJOURS ET UNCORE PRIST
to say that we have found no case in which the doctrine of constructive total loss without abandonment has been admitted, where the injured vessel remained in specie and waa brought to its home port by the insured. A wel...
Toullier, no
42.—Le roy (or la reine) le veut. The king (or the queen) wills ‘it. The form of the royal assent to public bills in par 44.
TOUR D’ECHELLE
TOUR D’EOCHELLE. In French law. An easement consisting of the right to rest ladders upon the adjoining estate, when necessary in order to repair a party-wall or buildings supported by it.
TOUT UN SOUND
L. Fr. All one sound; sounding the same; {fdem sonans.
Towa
467, 16 W. 525; Railway Co. v. Manson. 31 Kan. 337, 2 Pac. 800.
Towle
48 N. H. 57, 97 Am. Dec. 575, 2
Towle v. State, 8 Fla
214. —Judicial discretion, legal discretion. These terms are applied to the discretionary action of a judge or court, and mean discretion as above defined, that is, discretion bounded by the rules and principles of law...
TOWN
corporation. In some other states, where the county is the unit, the town is merely one of its subdivisions, but possesses some powers of local self-government. In still other states, such subdivisions of a county are. c...
Townsh. Pl
23. Ad certum diem, at a certain day. 2 Strange, 747. Solvit ad diem; he paid at or on the day. 1 Chit. Pl. 485. 265.—Custos horrei regi. rotector of eae paar? 2 Bl. Comm. 394. —Custos ; in old English law. Warden o...
Townshend v. Howard, 86 Me
285, 29 Atl. 1077. “Spoliation” is the erasure or alteration of a writing by. a stranger, and may amount to a cancellation if of such a nature ‘as to in-. validate it on its face; but defacement of an
TOWNSHIP
v TOWNSHIP. 1. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a “township” is a division of territory six miles square, containing thirty-six sections.
Towslee v. Durkee, 12 Wis
485; American, etc., Ass’n v. Harn (Tex. Civ. App) 62 8S. W. 75; Beals v. Amador County, Cal. 6383. imple interest is that which is paid for the principal or sum lent, at a certain rate or allowance, made by law or agr...
Tox
439, 888.—Amount of loss.
TOXIC
(Lat. tozicum; Gr. tozikon.) In
Tp
62 Iowa. 102, 17 N. W. 191.—Political economy. The science which describes the methods and laws of the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth, and treats of economic and industrial conditions and laws, and...
Tr
601. Now written art and part, (c. v.) 425, 440. pt. 1, p. 7. pt. 1, p. 90. pt. 1, p. 107. des Preuves, §§ 152, 320; Best, Ev. p. 294, § 252.
TRA MOTUS
Lat. Moved or excited by anger or passion. A term sometimes formerly used in the plea of son assault demesne. 1 Tidd, Pr. 645.
Trabue’s Ex’r v. Harris, 1 Mete
(Ky.) 507. —Discount broker. A bill braker; one who.
Traction Co
v. Hof, 174 U. S. 1, 19 Sup. Ct. 580, 43 L. Ed. 873; Lommen v. Minneapolis
Tracy, 137 Pa
53, 20 Atl. 560; Woodlief v. Duckwall, 19 Ohio Cir. Ct. R. 564.—Failure of justice. The defeat of a particular right, or the failure of reparation for a rticular wrong, from the lack of a leg remedy for the enforcement...
TRADE
y grains, oy. Rev. St. U. S. § 3518 (U. 8S. mp. St. 1901, p. 2345).—Trade fixtures. See F1IxXTURES.—Trade » The usage or customs commonly observed by persons conversant in, or connected with, a particular trade.
TRADING. Engaging in trade, (g
v. A) pursuing the business or occupation of trade or of a trader. A
TRADITIO
©.) 98 Fed. 711; Morris v. Clifton Forge: the transferor places the article in the hands of the transferee, or, on his order, delivers it at his house. Mackeld. Rom. Law, §
TRADUCENDIS ABSQUE OCUSTOMA
etc. An ancient writ that lay to the cus
TRAJECTITIUS
Sent across the sea.
TRANSACTION
‘TRAISTIS. In old Scotch law.. A roll containing the particular dittay taken up up” on malefactors, which, with the porteous, is delivered by the justice clerk to the coroner, to the effect that the persons whose nam...
TRANSAOTIO
Lat.. In the civil law.
TRANSCRIPT
TRANSORIPT. An official copy of certain proceedings in a court. Thus, any. person interested in a judgment or other record of a court can obtain a transcript of it.
TRANSFRETATIO
Lat. ([n old English law. A crossing of the strait, {of Dover ;] a passing or sailing over from England te France. The royal passages or voyages to Gascony, Brittany, and other parts of France were #0 called, and time wa...
TRANSGRESSIO
A. violation of law. tion of trespass.
TRANSGRESSIVE TRUST
TRANSHIPMENT. In maritime law. The act of taking the cargo out of one ship and loading it in another.
TRANSIENT
TRANSFERENCE. In Scotch law. The
TRANSITUS
Lat. Passage from. one
TRANSLATITIOM EDIOCTUM
Lat. In Roman law. The pretor, on his accession to office, did not usually publish an entirely new edict, but retained the whole or a part of that promulgated by his predecessor, as being of an approved or permanently us...
Transp. Co
v. Whittaker, 16 Wis. 220; Foster v. Charles Betcher Lumber Co., 5 S. D. 57, 58 N. W. 9, L. R. A. 490, 49 Am. St. Rep. 859.—Private agent. An agent acting for an individual in his private affairs; as distinguished from...
Trask v. Maguire, 18 Wall
402, 21 lL. Ed. 938; Harrison v. Vines, 46 Tex. 15.
TRAUMA
the “edictum ‘translatitium,.” See Mackeld.
Traumatic
ty is such as results from a wound or injury, particularly to the head or brain, such as fracture of the skull or concussion of the brain—Idiopathic insanity is such ag results from a disease of the brain itself, lesio...
Travelers’ Ins. Co
v. Oswego Tp., 59 Fed. 64, 7 C. C. A. 669; Board of Education v. Sinton, 41 Ohio St. 511.—8chool lands. See LAND.— Sencar master: One employed in teaching a school.
Travers, 88 Cal
233, 26 Pac. 88; People v. Fitspatrick, 1 N. Y. Cr. R. 425.
Tray
Lat. Max. Lat. Max. (or Leg. Max.). ner, Latin Maxims and Phrases, etc.
Tread
(or Tread. Oonst. [S. OC. ]). Treadway’s South Carolina Constitutional Reports. Tred. Tredgold’s Reports, Cape Colony. Tri. Bish. Trial of ‘the Seven Bishops. Tri. E. of Cov. Trial of the Earl of Coventry.
TREASON
or subject-matter as is embraced in a preced: ing traverse on the other side. l of actions, though his deeds taken severally do not amount to actual treason. This doctrine is not known in the United States.—High treas...
TREASURER’S REMEMBRANCER
. In Engiish law. He whose charge was to put the lord treasurer and the rest of the judges of the exchequer in remembrance of such things as were called on and dealt in for the sovereign’s behoof. There is still one in...
TREBLE DAMAGES
TREASURY. A place or building in which stores of wealth are reposited; particularly, a place where the public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government. Webster.
TREBUCKET
jury, actually tripled in amount. The usual practice has been for the jury to find the single amount of the damages, and for the court, on motion, to order that amount to be trebled. 2 Tidd, Pr. 893, 894.
TRESAEL
L. Fr. A great-great-grandfather. Britt. c. 119. Otherwise written “tresaiel,” and “tresayle.” 8 Bl. Comm. 1863 Litt. § 20.
TRESVIRI
to his person, property, or righté, by the immediate force and violence of the defendant. Lat. In Roman law. Offfcers who had the charge of prisons, and the execution of condemned criminals. Calvin.