Category: T

The term means, according to its derivation, a street or passage through which one can fare, (travel;) that is, a street or highway affording an unobstructed exit at each end into another

A colloquial expression for credit or trust; credit given for goods purchased.

In old Saxon law. An accusation.

In English law. An officer appointed by the marshal of the king’s bench to attend upon the judges with a kind of rod or staff tipped with silver, who take iuto their

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 toya, which had then ceased to

The capacity of a vessel for carrying freight or other loads, calculated iu tous. But the way of estimating the tonnage varies iu different countries. Iu England, tonnage denotes the actual weight

L. Lat. In the old reports. The whole court.

(Lat. toxicum; Gr. toxikon.) In medical jurisprudence. Poisonous; having the character or producing the effects of a poison; referable to a poison; produced by or resulting from a poison.

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.