日期：2008-03-26 TOKEN, commercial law. In England, this name is given to pieces of metal, made in the shape of money, passing among private persons by consent at a certain value. 2 Adolpb. P. S. 175; 2 Chit. Com. Law, 182. TOLERAT10N. In some. countries, where reli... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TITLE DEEDS. Those deeds which are evidences of the title of the owner of an estate. 2. The person who is entitled to the inheritance has a right to the possession of the title deeds. 1 arr. Marsh. 653. TITLE OF A DECLARATION, pleading. At the top o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TITLE, legislation That part of an act of the legislature by which it is known, and distinguished from other acts the name of the act. 2. A practice has prevailed of late years to crowd into the same act a mass of heterogeneous matter, so that it is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TIPPLING HOUSE. A place where spirituous liquors are sold and drunk in vio-lation of law. Sometimes the mere selling is considered as evidence of keeping a tippling house. TIPSTAFF. An officer appointed by the marshal of the court of king's bench, t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TIME, contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, (q. v.) hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. (q. v.) 2. Time is frequently of the essence of contracts and crimes,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TIE. When two persons receive an equal number of votes at an election, there is said to be a tie. 2. In that case neither is elected. When the votes are given on any question to be decided by a deliberative assembly, and there is a tie, the question... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 THREAT, evidence. Menace. 2. When a confession is obtained from a person accused of crime, in consequence of a threat, evidence of such confession cannot be received, because, being obtained by the torture of fear, it comes in so questionable a shap... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 THIRD PARTIES. This term includes all persons who are not parties to the contract, agrement or instrument of writing, by which their interest in the thing conveyed is sought to be affected. 1 N. S. 384. See also 2 L. R. 425 6 M. R. 528. 2. But it is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 THIEF, crimes. One who has been guilty of larceny or theft. THING ADJUDGED. That which has been decided by a final judgment, by a tribu-nal of competent jurisdiction, from which there can be no appeal, either because the appeal did not lie, or becau... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 THAINLAND, old Eng. law. The land which was granted by the Saxon kings to their thains or thanes was so called. Crabb's C. L. 10. The name of a coin. The thaler of Prussia and of the northern states of Germany is deemed as money of account, at the c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TEXAS. The name of one of the new states of the United, States of America. Texas was an independent republic. By the joint resolution of congress of March 1, 1845, congress gave consent that the republic of Texas might be erected into a new state, t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TESTATUM, conveyancing. That part of a deed which commences with the words this indenture witnesseth. TESTE , practice. The teste of a writ is the concluding clause, commencing with the word witness, c. 2. The act of congress of May 8, 1792, 1 Story... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TESTAMENTARY. Belonging to a testament; as a testamentary gift; a testamen-tary guardian, or one appointed by will or testament; letters testamentary, or a writing under seal given by an officer lawfully authorized, granting power to one named as ex... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TERTIUS INTERVENIENS , civil law. One, who claiming an interest in the subject or thing in dispute in action between other parties, asserts his right to act with the plaintiff, to be joined with him, and to recover the matter in dispute because he h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TERRITORY. Apart of a country, separated from the rest, and subject to a particular jurisdiction. The word is derived from terreo, and is so called because the magistrate within his jurisdiction has the power of inspiring a salutary fear. Dictum cat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TERMINUM. In the civil law, says Spelman, this word signifies a day set to the defendant, and, in that sense, Bracton, Glanville and some others sometimes use it. Reliquiae Spelmanianae, p. 71; Beames' Gl. 27 n. TERMINUS A QUO. The starting point of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TERM, estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate also and interest that passes by that lease; and therefore the term may ex... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TENSE. A term used in, grammar to denote the distinction of time. 2. The acts of a court of justice ought to be in the present tense; as, praeceptum est, not preaceptum fuit; but the acts of, the party may be in the preterperfect tense, as venit, et... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TENET. Which he holds. There are two ways of stating the tenure in an action of waste. The averment is either in the tenet and the tenuit; it has a refer-ence to the time of the waste done, and not to the time of bringing the action. 2. When the ave... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TENNESSEE. The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. This state was admitted into the Union by virtue of the act for the admission of the state of Tennessee into the Union, approved June 1, 1796, 1 Story's L. IT. S. 450, whi... 阅读全文>>