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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

TRAVERSER

In pleading. One who traverses or denies. A prisoner or party indicted; so called from his traversing the indictment.

TREMAGIUM, TREMESIUM

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 ;

TRIPLICACION

L. Fr. In old pleading. A rejoinder in pleading; the defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s replication. Britt. c. 77.

TRUCK ACT

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

TUTEUR

In French law. A kind of guardian.

TABERNARIUS

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,

TACKSMAN

In Scotch law. A tenant or lessee; oue to whom a tack is granted. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 2, p. 153.

TANNERIA

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

TARDE VENIT

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.

TEAMSTER

One who drives horses in a wagon for the purpose of carrying goods for hire. He is liable as a common carrier. Story, Bailm.

TENENDUM

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

TERCERONE

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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