日期：2008-03-26 TRET, weights and measures. An allowance made for the water or TRIAL, practice., The examination before a competent tribunal, according to the laws, of the land, of the facts put in issue in a cause, for the purpose of determining such issue. 4 Maso... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRESPASS DE BONIS ASPORTATIS , practice. The action brought by the owner of goods for unlawfully taking and carrying them away, is so called. This action will lie for taking away another's goods, even though he should return them, because by such ta... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRESPASS, remedies. The name of an action, instituted for the recovery of damages, for a wrong committed against the plaintiff, with immediate force; as an assault and battery against the person; an unlawful entry into his, land, and an unlawful inj... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRESPASS torts. An unlawful act committed with violence, ti et armis, to the person, property or relative rights of another. Every felony includes a tres-pass, in common parlance, such acts are not in general considered as tres-passes, yet they subj... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TREBUCKET. The name of an engine of punishment, said to be synonymous with tumbrel. (q. v.) TREE. A woody plant, which in respect of thickness and height grows greater than any other plant. 2. Trees are part of the real estate while growing, and bef... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TREATY OF PEACE. A treaty of peace is an agreement or contract made by belligerent powers, in which they agree to lay down their arms, and by which they stipulate the conditions of peace, and regulate the manner in which it is to be restored and sup... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TREASURY . The place where treasure is kept the office of a treasurer. The term is more usually applied to the public than to a private treasury. Vide Department of the Treasury o the United States. TREATY, international law. A treaty is a compact m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TREASURER. An officer entrusted with the treasures or money either of a private individual, a corporation, a company, or a state. 2. It is his duty to use ordinary diligence in the performance of his office, and to account with those whose money he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TREASON, crim. law. This word imports a betraying, treachery, or breach of allegiance. 4 Bl. Com. 75. 2. The constitution of the United States, art. 3, s. 3, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war (q. v.) against th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRAVAIL. The act of child-bearing. 2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. 5 Pick. 63; 6 Greenl. R. 460. 3. In some states, to render the mother of a bastard child a competent wit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRANSLATION. The copy made in one language of what has been written, or spoken in another. 2. In pleading, when a libel or an agreement, written in a foreign language, must be averred, it is necessary that a translation of it should also be given. 3... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRANSFEREE. He to whom a transfer is made. TRANSFERENCE, Scotch law. The name of an action by which a suit, which was pending at the time the parties died, is transferred from the deceased to his representatives, in the same condition in which it st... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRANSACTION, contracts, civil law. An agreement between two or more persons, who for the purpose of preventing or putting an end to a law-suit, adjust their differences by mutual consent, in the manner which they agree on; in Louisiana this contract... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRADITION, contracts, civil law. The act by which a thing is delivered by one or more persons to one or more others. 2. In sales it is the delivery of possession by the proprietor with an intention to transfer the property to the receiver. Two thing... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRADER. One who makes it his business to buy merchandise or goods and chattels, and to sell the same for the purpose of making a profit. The quantum of dealing is immaterial, when an intention to deal generally exists. 3 Stark. 56; 2 C. P. 135; 1 T.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRADE MARKS. Signs, writings or tickets put upon manufactured goods, to distinguish them from others. 2. It seems at one time to have been thought that no man acquired a right in a particular mark or stamp. 2 Atk. 484. But it was afterwards consider... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TOUR D'ECHELLE , French law. Tour d'echelle is a right which the owner of an estate has of placing ladders on his neighbor's property to facilitate the reparation of a party wall, or of buildings which are supported by that wall. It is a species of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TOTAL . Complete; containing the whole; as the total amount of an account is all the items of such account added together; total incapacity, is an absolute and complete incapacity to do a thing. A married woman is totally incapable to make a contrac... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TOOK AND CARRIED AWAY, pleadings. In an indictment for simple larceny, the words feloniously took and carried away the goods stolen, are indispensable. Bac. Abr. Indictment, GI; Com. Dig. Indictment, G 6; Cro. C. C. 37; 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 0244. Vide T... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TONNAGE, mar. law. The capacity of a ship or vessel. 2. The act of congress of March 2, 1799, s. 64, 1 Story's L. U. S. 630, directs that to ascertain the tonnage of any ship or vessel, the surveyor, c. shall, if the said ship or vessel be double de... 阅读全文>>