TRANSFER, n
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
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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
Span. A transcript
In pleading. One who traverses or denies. A prisoner or party indicted; so called from his traversing the indictment.
In old records. The season or time of sowing summer corn, being about March, the third month, to which the word may allude. Cowell. Tres faciunt collegium. Three make a corporation ;
The court held for a triding or trithing. Cowell.
L. Fr. In old pleading. A rejoinder in pleading; the defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s replication. Britt. c. 77.
In English law. This name is given to the statute 1 & 2 Wm. IV. c. 37, passed to abolish what is commonly called the “truck system,” under which employers were in
Under St. 13 Car. II. St. 1, c.
In French law. A kind of guardian.
A mount or hill. Cowell.
Lat In the civil law. A shop-keeper. Dig. 14, 3, 5, 7. In old English law. A taverner or tavern-keeper. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12,
In Scotch law. A tenant or lessee; oue to whom a tack is granted. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 2, p. 153.
ishment of an Injury by an act of tbe same kind, as an eye for an eye, a limb for a limb, etc. Calvin. Talis interpretatio semper fiends est, nt evitetur absurdum
Lat. In practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff to a writ, when it came into his hands too late to be executed before the return-day.
Lat. To rate or value. Calvin.
One who drives horses in a wagon for the purpose of carrying goods for hire. He is liable as a common carrier. Story, Bailm.
A tax of two shillings upon every plow-land, a decennary.
distinguished from copyhold by many of its incidents. 2. The so-called tenant-right of renewal is the expectation of a lessee that his lease will be renewed, in cases where it is an
In old English law. A dean. Cowell.
A term applied in the West Indies to a person one of whose parents was white aud the other a mulatto. See Daniel v. Guy, 19 Ark. 131.
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