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TOLT

A writ whereby a cause depending in a court barou was taken and removed into a county court Old Nat. Brev. 4.

TORTURE

In old criminal law. The question; the Infliction of violent bodily pain upon a person, by means of the rack, wheel, or other engine, under judicial sanction and superintendence, in connection with

TO-WIT

That is to say; namely; scilicet; videlicet.

TRADICION

Span. In Spanish law. Delivery. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 2, c. 9.

TRANSACTION

In the civil law. A transaction or compromise is an agreement between two or more persons, who, for preventing or putting an end to a lawsuit, adjust their differences by mutual consent,

TRANSLATITIUM EDICTUM

Lat In Roman law. The praetor, on his accession to ollice, did not usually publish an entirely new edict, but retained the whole or a part of that promulgated by bis predecessor,

TRESAYLE

An abolished writ sued on ouster by abatement, on the death of the grandfather’s grandfather.

TRIENNIAL ACT

An English statute limiting the duration of every parliament to three years, unless sooner dissolved. It was passed by the long parliament in 1640, and afterwards repealed, and the term was fixed

TRISTRIS

In old forest law. A freedom from the duty of attending the lord of a forest when engaged In the chase. Spelman.

TRUST

1. An equitable or beneficial right or title to land or other property, held for the beneficiary by another person, in whom resides the legal title or ownership, recognized and enforced by

T VOYAGE

In maritime law. The passing of a vessel by sea from one place, port, or country to another. The term is held to include the enterprise entered upon, and not merely the

TRADING; CORPORATIONS

A trading corporation is a commercial corporation engaged In buying and selling. The word “trading,” is much narrower in scope than “business,” as applied to corporations, and though a trading corporation is

TRAMP CORPORATIONS

Companies chartered in one state without any intention of doing business therein, but which carry on their business and operations wholly In other states. Slate v. Georgia Co., 112 N. C. 34,

TREBLE COSTS

A rate of costs given in certain actions, consisting, according to its technical import, of the common costs, half of these, and half of the latter. 2 Tidd, Pr. 988. The word

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