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

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

In old forest law. A free-dom from the dnty of attending the lord of a forest when engaged in the chase. Spel-inan

Lat. In the civil law. The reply of the plaintiff to the rejoinder of the defendant. It corresponds to the sur-rejoinder of common law. InsL 4, 14; Bract. 1. 5, t 5, c. L

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 whlch ls executed in triplicate

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 ls not qualified to serve

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

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Sittings of the Eugllsh court of appeal and of the high court of justice ln London and Middlesex, commencing on the Tuesday after whitsun week, and terminating on the 8th of August

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

In Saxon law. A triple gild, geld, or payment; three times the value of a thing, paid as a composition or satisfac-tion. Spelman

Lat. In Roman law. A subdivision of the as, containing four uneiae; the proportion of four-twelfths or one-third. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note m. A copper coin of the value of one-thlrd of the as. Brande

In old English law. one who has been thrice married; one who, at different times and successively, has had three wives; a trigamist. 3 Inst. 88

An Engllsh statute limtting the duratlon of every parliament to three years, uifless sooner dissolved. It was passed by the long parliament in 1640, and afterwards repealed, and the term was fixed at seven years by the septennial act, (St. 1 Geo. I. St. 2, c. 38

In oid English law. The space of three days. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 31, 8 7

The court held for a triding or trithlng. CoweU

An ancient custom in a borough in the county of Hereford, so call-ed because thirty burgesses paid ld. rent for thelr houses to the bishop, who was lord of the manor, wharton

A contribution which Is rais* ed by a prince or sovereign from his subjects to sustain the expenses of the state

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The seat of a jndge; the place- where he administers justice; a ju-dicial court; the beuch of judges. -See Foster v. worcester, 16 Pick. (Mass.) 81

Lat. In the clvll law.. To give; to distribute

The examination before a com-petent tribunal, according to the law of the land, of the facts or law put in issue in a cause, for the purpose of determining such issue

withdrawn, as a juror, wrlt-teu also treat. Cowell

In old English law. A trithlng; the court of a ttithing

Lat. In Roman law. officers who had the charge of prisons, and the-execution of condemned criminals. Calvin

An allowance made for the water or dust that may be mixed with any com-modity. It differs from tare, (q. v

In old English law. To turn aside; to divert a stream from its course. Bract, fols. 115, 234b. To turn or alter the course of a road. Cowell

Any misfeasance or act of one man whereby another is injuriously treated or damnified. 3 Bl. Comm. 208

In old

In old English law. Fine wheat

In practice. Dam-ages given by statute in certain cases, con-sisting of the single damages found by Ute

A tumbrel, castigatory, or cucking-stool. See James v. Comm., 12 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 227

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A place or building in which stores of wealth are reposited; particularly, a place where the puhllc revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government, webster

Having the nature or guilt of treason

or TREAOHOUR. A traitor

This is a pleading in chancery, and consists of a denial put in by the plaintiff on behalf of the defendant, generally denying all the statements in the plaintiff’s bill The effect of it is to put the plaintiff upon proof of the whole contents of his bill, and is only resorted to for the […]

To go from one piace 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. Y. 1, 46 Am. Rep. 112; Gholson v. State, 53 Ala. 521, 25 Am. Rep. 652; Camp-bell v. State, 28 Tex. App. 44, […]

The term is used ln a broad sense to designate those who patronize inns. Traveler is one who travels in any way. Distance is not material. A towns-man or neighbor may be a traveler, and therefore a guest at an inn, as well as he who comes from a distance or from a foreign cohntry. […]

The act of child-bearing. A woman is said to be hi her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence un-til her delivery. Scott v. Donovan, 153 Mass. 378, 26 N. E. 871

In medical jurisprudence. A wound; any injury to the body caused by external violence

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

In Spanish law. A copyt p sight, white, New Recop. b. 3, tit 7, e. X

In tbe civil law. The right which heirs or legatees may have- of passing to their successors the inheritance qr legacy to which they were entitled, if they happen to die without having.exercised their rights. Domat, liv. 3, t. 1, s. 10; 4 Toullier, no. 186; Dig. 50, 17, 54; Code, 6, 5L

A fact by mea ne of wbich 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 tp an object, and of originating the right of another to it.

The reproduction in one language of a book, document,, or speech delivered ln another language

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Lat. Passage from one place to’another; transit. In transitu, on the passage, transit; or way. 2 Kent, Comm. 54X