日期：2008-03-26 TENEMENT , estates. In its most extensive signification tenement comprehends every thing which may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature; and not only lands and inheritances which are holden, but also rents and profits a prendre of which a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TENANT OF THE DEMESNE , Eng. law. One who is tenant of a mesne lord; as where A is tenant of B, and C of A; B is the lord, A the mesne lord and C tenant of the demesne. Ham. N. P. 392, 393. TENANT BY THE MANNER. One who has a less estate than a fee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TEMPORARY. That which is to last for a limited time; as, a temporary sta-tute, or one which is limited in its operation for a particular period of time after its enactment the opposite of perpetual. TENANCY or TENANTCY. The state or condition of a t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TAXING COSTS , practice. The act by which it is ascertained to what costs a party is entitled. 2. It is a rule that the jury must assess the damages and costs separately, so that it may appear to the court that the costs were not considered, in the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TAVERN. A place of entertainment; a house kept up for the accommodation of strangers. 2. These are regulated by various local laws. For the liabilities of tavern keepers, Vide Story on Bailm. art. 7; 2 Kent, Com. 458; 12 Mod. 487; Jones' Bailm. 94;... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TALZIE, HEIR IN. Scotch law. Heirs of talzie or tailzie, are heirs of estates entailed. 1 Bell's Com. 47. TANGIBLE PROPERTY. That which may be felt or touched; it must necessarily be corporeal, but it may be real or personal. A house and a horse are... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TALE , comm. law. A denomination of money in China. In the computation of the ad valorem duty on goods, c. it is computed at one dollar and forty-eight cents. Act of March 2, 1799, s. 61, 1 Sto. L. U. S. 626. Vide Foreign Coins. TALE, Eng. law. The... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TAKING, crim. torts. The act of laying hold upon an article, with or without removing the same; a felonious taking is not sufficient without a carrying away, to constitute the crime of larceny. (q. v.) And when the taking has been legal, no subseque... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TAIL. An estate tail is an estate of inheritance, to a man or a woman and his or her heirs of his or her body, or heirs of his body of a particular description, or to several persons and the heirs of their bodies, or the heirs generally or specially... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TACIT LAW. A law which derives its authority from the common consent of the people, without any legislative enactment. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 120. TACK , Scotch law. A contract of location by which the use of land, or any other immovable subject, is, set... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TABELLIO. An officer among the Romans who reduced to writing and into proper form, agreements, contracts, wills, and other instruments, and witnessed their execution. The term tabellio is derived from the Latin tabula, seu tabella, which in this sen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SWAINMOTE COURT, Engl. law. The court within the forest to which all the freeholders owe suit and service. Bac. Ab. Courts of the Forest, 2. TO SWEAR. To take an oath, judicially administered. Vide Affirmation; Oath. 2. To swear also signifies to us... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUSPENSION OF ARMS . An agreement between belligerents, made for a short time or for a particular place, to cease hostilities between them. See Armistice. Truce. SUSPENSION OF A RIGHT. The act by which a party is deprived of the exercise of his righ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUSPENSE. When a rent, profit a prendre, and the like, are, in consequence of the unity of possession of the rent, c., of the land out of which they issue, not in esse for a time, they are said to be in suspense, tunc dormiunt, but they may be reviv... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SURVIVOR. The longest liver of two or more persons. 2. In crises of partnership, the surviving partner is entitled to have all the effects of the partnership, and, is bound to pay all the debts owing by the firm. Gow on Partn. 157; Watson on Partn.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SURRENDER OF CRIMINALS. The act by which the public authorities deliver a person accused of a crime, and who is found in their, jurisdiction, to the authorities within whose jurisdiction it is alleged the crime has been committed. Vide Extradition;... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SURPLUSAGE, accounts. A greater dishursement than the charges of the accountant amount to. SURPRISE. This term is frequently used in courts of equity and by writers on equity jurisprudence. It signifies the act by which a party who is entering into... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SURGERY, med. jur. That part of the healing art which relates to external diseases; their treatment; and, specially, to the manual operations adopted for their cure. 2. Every lawyer should have some acquaintance with surgery; his knowledge on this s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SURETYSHIP, contracts. An accessory agreement by which a person binds himself for another already bound, either in whole or in part, as for his debt, default or miscarriage. 2. The person undertaken for must be liable as well as the person giving th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SURETY OF THE PEACE, crim. law. A security entered into before. Some competent court or officer, by a party accused, together with some other person, in the form of recognizance to the commonwealth in a certain sum of money, with, a condition that t... 阅读全文>>