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Delivery. A close translation or formation from the Latin “traditio.” 2 Bl. Comm. 307. The tradition or delivery is the transferring of the thing sold into the power and pos- session of

The passing of a thing or of property from one person to another; alienation; conveyance. 2 Bl. Comm. 294. Transfer is an act of the parties, or of the law, by which

In old New York law. A conveyance of land.

Having the nature or guilt of treason.

In old English law. To turn aside; to divert a stream from its course. Bract, fols. 115, 2346. To turn or alter the course of a road. Cowell. TRESVIRI. Lat. In Roman

In Saxon law. A triple gild, geld, or payment; three times the value of a thing, paid as a composition or satisfaction. Spelman.

In Saxon law. One of the territorial divisions of England, being the third part of a county, and comprising three or more hundreds. Within the trithing there was a court held (called

In old European law. Trust; faith; confidence; fidelity.

The great court-leet of the county, as the old county court was the court-baron. Of this the sheriff is judge, and the court is incident to his office; wherefore it is called

The earliest statute or code of Roman law, framed by a com- mission of ten men, B. C. 450, upon the return of a commission of three who had been sent abroad

Lat In Roman law. A tablet. 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

To annex some junior lien to a first lien, thereby acquiring priority over an intermediate one. See TACKING.

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. 3 Bl.

Span. In Spanish law. Preemption. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 2, c. 3.

In old European law. Soldiers of a garrison or lieet, assigned to a certain station. Spelman.

In Scotch law. A term corresponding to tithes (q. v.) in English ecclesias- tical law.

That which is to last for a limited time only, as distinguished from that which is perpetual, or indefinite, in its duration. Thus, temporary alimony is granted for the support of the

A writ that formerly lay for hiiu to whom a disseisor had alienated the land whereof he disseised another, that he should not be molested in assize for damages, if the disseisor

a compact contrary to the common nature and reason of the fee, put into a contract

He that holds lands or tenements for a term of years or life. But we generally confine the application of the word to a person entitled for a term of years. Mozley