In English law. A society at Deptford Strond, incorporated by Hen. VIII. iu 1515, for the promotion of commerce and navigation by licensing and regulating pilots, and ordering and erecting beacons, light-houses,

are elder brethren of the Trinity House. If a question arising in an admiralty action depends upon technical skill and experience in navigation, TRINITY SITTINGS 1174 ROVER the judge or court is

Sittings of the English court of appeal and of the high court of justice in London and Middlesex, commencing on the Tuesday after Whitsun week, and terminating on tlie 8th of August.

One of the four terms of the English courts of common law, beginning on the 22d day of May, and end- ing on the 12th of June. 3 Steph. Comm. 562.

In old European law. An extraordinary kind of composition for an offense, consisting of three times nine, or twenty-seven times the single geld or pay- ment. Spelman.

Lat In Saxon law. A threefold necessity or burden. A term used to denote the three things from contributing to the performance of which no lands were exempted, viz., pontis rcpara- tio,

In practice. Persons who are appointed to try challenges to jurors, i. e., to hear and determine whether a juror challenged for favor is or is not qualified to serve. The lords

In conveyancing. Of three parts; a term applied to an indenture to which there are three several parties, (of the first, second, and third parts,) and which is executed in triplicate.

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

Lat. In the civil law. The reply of the plaintiff to the rejoinder of the defendant. It corresponds to the surrejoinder of common law. Inst 4, 14; Bract. 1. 5, t 5,

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

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandmother’s great-grandmother; the female ascendant In the sixth degree.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandfather’s great-grandfather; the male ascendant in the sixth degree.

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

Lat. In old English law. A trithing man or constable of three hundred. Cowell.

Lat. In Roman law. Officers who had charge of the prison, through whose intervention punishments were inflicted. They had eight lictors to execute their orders. Vicat, Voc. Jur.

In the civil law. Juridical days; days allowed to the praetor for deciding causes; days on which the pr.-etor might speak the three characteristic words of his office, viz., do, dico, addico.

Trifling; inconsiderable; of small worth or importance. In equity, a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as be- ing below tlie

In English law. A customary duty or toll for weighing wool; so called because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12.

A weigher of wool. Co- well.