In English law. A warrant or permit for the custom-house to let goods pass. Transit in rem jndicatam. It passes into a matter adjudged; it becomes converted into a res judicata or

See COVENANT.

Passing from place to place; that may pass or be changed from one place to another; not confined to one place; tlie opposite of “local.”

Lat. Passage from one place to another; transit. In transitu, on the passage, transit, or way. 2 Kent, Comm. 513.

Span. A transcript

The reproduction In one language of a book, document, or speech delivered in another language. The transfer of property ; but In this sense it is seldom used. 2 Xtl. Comm. 204.

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,

A fact by means of which a right is transferred or passes from one person to another; one, that is, which fulfills the double function of terminating the right of one person

In the civil law. The right which heirs or legatees may have of passing to their successors the inheritance or legacy to which they were entitled, if tliey happen to die without

In old New York law. A conveyance of land.

The removal of goods or persons from one place to another, by a carrier. See Railroad Co. v. Pratt, 22 Wall. 133, 22 L. Ed. 827; Interstate Commerce Coin’n v. Brimson, 154

In Scotch law, an action of transumpt is an action competent to any one having a partial interest in a writing, or immediate use for it, to support his title or defenses

In Spanish law. A copy; a sight. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 7, c. 3. A copy of a document taken by the notary from the original, or a subsequent copy

Drawing; one who draws. The drawer of a bill of exchange.

One who is drawn, or drawn upon. The drawee of a bill of exchange. Ileinecc. de Camb. c. 0. 5, 6.

In medical jurisprudence. A wound; any injury to tlie body caused by ex- ternal violence.

Tbe act of child-bearing. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. Scott v. Donovan, 153 Mass. 378, 26 N.

To go from one place to another at a distance; to journey; spoken of voluntary change of place. See White v. Beazley, 1 Barn. & Aid. 171; Hancock v. Rand, 94 N.

The term is used in a broad sense to designate those who patronize inns. Traveler is one who travels in any way. Distance is not material. A townsman or neighbor may be

In the language of pleading, a traverse signifies a denial. Thus, where a defendant denies any material allegation of fact in the plaintiff’s declaration, he is said to traverse it. and the