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TRET. An allowance made for the water or dust that may be mixed with any commodity. It differs from tare, (g. v.)
Terms beginning with "T" (352 total)
TRI
L. Lat. With or by the advice of our council]. A phrase used in the old writs of summons to parliament. Crabb, Eng. Law, 240.
TRIAL
tators may keep his triers keenly alive to a mings of their responsibility and to the importance o their functions: and the requirement is fairly observed if, without partiality or favoritism. a reasonable proportion of ...
TRIBUERE
Lat. In the civil law. To give: -to distribute: a
TRIENS
Lat. In Roman law. A subdivision of the as, containing four uncie; the proportion of four-twelfths or one-third. 2 BI. Comm. 462, note m. A copper coin of Brande.
TRINEPTIS
Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandson’s or great-granddaughter’s great-granddaughter. A female descendant in the sixth degree. Inst. 3, 6, 4.
TRINITY MASTERS
TRIBUTE. A contribution which is raised by a prince or sovereign from his subjects to sustain the expenses of the state.
TRINITY SITTINGS
the judge or court is usually assisted at the hearing by two Trinity Masters, who sit as assessors, and advise the court on questions of a nautical character. Williams & B.
TRINODA NECESSITAS
Lat. In Saxon law. A threefold necessity or burden. A term used to denote the three things from contributing to the performance of which no lands were exempted, viz., pontis reparatio, (the repair of bridges,) arcis cons...
TRIPLICAOION
L. Fr. In old pleading. A rejoinder in pleading; the defendant’s answer to the plaintiff's replication.
TRIPLIOATIO
Lat. In the civil law. The reply of the plaintiff to the rejoinder of the defendant. It corresponds to the surrejoinder of common law. Inst. 4, 14;
Tripp. Tripp’s Reports, vols
5-6 Dakota. Tristram. Tristram’s Supplement to vol.
TRITAVIA
Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandmother’s great-grandmother; the female ascendant in the sixth degree.
TRITAVUS
Lat. great-grandfather’s great-grandfather ; male ascendant in the sixth degree.
TRIUMVIR
Lat. In old English law.. A trithing man or constable of three hundred. Cowell.
TRIUMVIRI OAPITALES
Lat. Ip Roman law. Officers who had charge of the prison, through whose intervention punishments were inflicted. They had eight lictore to execute their orders. Vicat, Voc. Jur.
TROY WEIGHT
son, 24 R. I.°817, 58 Atl. 98, 96 Am. St. Rep. 716; Waring v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 76 Pa. 496; Metropolis Mfg. Co. v. Lynch, 68 Conn. 459, 86 Atl. 882; Spellman vy. Richmond &
Truelsen, 39 Minn
310, 40 N. W. 67; Woolsey v. State, 30 Tex. App. 347, 17 S. W. 546.
TRUST
attending to the registration and transfer of their stock and bonds, serving as trustee. for their bond or mortgage creditors, and transacting a general banking and loan business. See Venner v. Farmers’ L. & T. Co., 54...
Trust Co
v. Jones, 108 Tenn. 245, 58 8S. W. 219. v. Hunt, 16 Barb. (N. Y.) 514, 525.
Trust Co., 106 Ga
578, 32 S. EB. 625.—Head of stream. The highest point on the streant which furnishes a continuous stream of water not necessarily the longest fork or prong. i v. Reynolds, 64 S. W. 498. Ky. Law Rep. 750; State v. Colem...
Trust, etc., Co
v. Audenreid, 83 Pa. 264. It means to make return or restoration of an equivalent for something paid, expended, or lost; to indemnify, or make whole.
TRUSTEE
out any consolidation or merger. This device was the erection of a central committee or board, composed, perhaps, of the presidents or general managers of the different corporations, and the transfer to them of a majorit...
TRUSTEE 1178
der a will; one appointed to carry out a trust created by a will. ‘I'he term does not ordinaril include an executor or an administrator with the will annexed, or a guardian, though all of these are in a sense trustees,...
Trustees of Bryn Maur College
34 N. J. Eq. 101.—{Public charity. In this phrase the word “public” is used. not in the sense that it must be executed openly and in public, but in the sense of being so general and indefinite in its objects as to ...
Trusts, 257; Hunt, Eq
248; Daniell, Ch. Pr 1765.
TUAS RES TIBI HABETO
Lat. Have or take your things to yourself. The form of words by which, according to the old Roman Jaw, a man divorced his wife. Calvin.
Tucker vy. Randall, 2 Mass
283. It constitutes surplusage, (which see.)
Tucker, 17 R. I. 529, 23 Atl
61; Meigs v. Insurance Co., 2 Cush. (Mass.) 439; Toler v.
TULLIANUM
Lat. In Roman law. That part of a prison which was under ground. Supposed to be so called ftom Servius Tullius, who built that part of the first prison in Rome. Adams, Rom. Ant. 200.
TUM MERCATORIUM DELIBERAN
DO. Writ for delivering a clerk arrested on a statute merchant. <A writ for the delivery of a clerk out of prison, who had been taken and imprisoned upon the breach of a statute merchant. Reg. Orig. 1470.
Tumbridge, 83 N. x
95, 38 Am. Rep. 398. .
TUMULTUOUS PETITIONING. Un
der St. 18 Car. II. St. 1, « 5, this was a misdemeanor, and consisted in more than twenty persons signing any petition to the crown or either house of parliament for the alteration of matters established by law in churc...
TUN. <A
measure of wine or oil, containing four hogsheads.
TURBA
Lat. In the civil law. A multitude; a crowd or mob; a tumultuous assembly of persons. Said to consist of ten or fifteen, at the least. Calvin.
Turn. & Rus
(or Rass.). Turner & Russell’s English Chancery Reports.
Turnbull, 23 Ark
615; Odom v. Odom, 36
Turner v. State, 114 Ga
421. 40 S. E. 308; Cr. Code N. Y. 1903, § 374.—Challenge propter affectum. A challenge interposed on account of an ascertained or suspected bias or partiality, and which may be either a principal challenge or a challe...
TURNPIKE
TUG. <A steam vessel built for towing; synonymous with “tow-boat.”
Turnpike Co
v. Marshall, 11 Conn. 190: v. Neil, 9 Ohio, 12; Turnpike
TURPIS
bars, for the purpose of taking toll, and of re- Lat. In the civil law. Base; mean; vile: disgraceful; infamous; unlawful. Applied both to things and persons. Calvin.
TURPITUDO
Lat. Baseness; infamy; immorality; turpitude.
TUTELA
Lat. In the civil law. Tutelage; that species of guardfanship which continued to the age of puberty; the guardian being called “tutor,” and the ward, “pupilius.” 1 Dom. Civil Law, b. 2, tit. 1, p. 260. ~—Tutela...
TUTELZ AOCTIO
Lat. In the civil law. An action of tutelage; an action which lay for a ward or pupil, on the termination of tutelage, against the tutor or guardian, to compel an account. Calvin.
Tutt v. Land, 50 Ga
350.—Net tonnage. The net tonnage of a vessel is the difference between the entire cubic contents of the interior of the vessel numbered in tons and the space occupied by the crew and by propelling machinery. The
Tuttle, 53 Wis
45,9 N. W. 791. Also the title of certain German princes who formerly had a voice in the election of the German emperors.
Tuttle. Tuttle’s Reports, ‘vols
23-32 and 41-52 California. Z . Tuttle & Carpen-
TWELFHINDI
Hdward the Confessor it was provided that a man who lodged at an inn, or at the house of another, should be considered, on the first night of his being there, a stranger, (ucuth ;) on the second night, a guest; on the th...
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AL Courts, FEDERAL Courts, HicH CoMMIS-
Tyl
(or Tyler). Tyler’s Vermont Reports.