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Token

1) Contracts, crimes. A document or sign of the existence of a fact. 2) 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.

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Sign
1) Contracts, evidence. A token of anything; a note or token given without words.2) Measures. In angular measures, a sign is equal to thirty degrees. 3) Merchant law. A board, tin or other substance, on which is painted the name and business of a merchant or tradesman.

Fact
An action; a thing done. It is either simple or compound.

Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.

Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.

Money
Gold, silver, and some other less precious metals, in the progress of civilization and commerce, have become the common standards of value; in order to avoid the delay and inconvenience of regulating their weight and quality whenever passed, the governments of the civilized world have caused them to be manufactured in certain portions, and marked with a Stamp which attests their value; this is called money.

Private
Not general, as a private act of the legislature; not in office; as, a private person, as well as an officer, may arrest a felon; individual, as your private interest; not public, as a private way, a private nuisance.

Consent
Agreement; voluntary acceptance of the wish of another.

Value
Common law. This term has two different meanings. It sometimes expresses the utility of an object, and some times the power of purchasing other good with it. The first may be called value in use, the latter value in exchange.



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To quash
Practice. To overthrow or annul.

To set aside
To annul; to make void; as to set aside an award.

To utter
Criminal law. To offer, to publish. To utter and publish a counterfeit note is to assert and declare, directly or indirectly, by words or actions, that the note offered is good. It is not necessary that it should be passed in order to complete the offence of uttering.

Toft
A place or piece of ground on which, a house formerly stood, which has been destroyed by accident or decay; it also signifies a messuage.

Togati
Roman civil law. Under the empire, when the toga had ceased to be the usual costume of the Romans, advocates were nevertheless obliged to wear it whenever they pleaded a cause. Hence they were called togati. This denomination received an official or legal sense in the imperial constitutions of the fifth and sixth centuries, and the words togati, consortium (corpus, ordo, collegium,) togatorum, frequently occur in those acts.

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Toleration
In some. countries, where religion is established by law, cer-tain sects who do not agree with the established religion are nevertheless permitted to exist, and this permission is called toleration. Those are per-mitted and allowed to remain rather as a matter of favor than a matter of right.

Toll
1) Contracts. A sum of money for the use of something, generally applied to the consideration which is paid for the use of a road, bridge, or the like, of a public nature. Toll is also the compensation paid to a miller for grinding another person's grain. 2) To toll. Estates, rights. To bar, defeat, or take away; as to toll an entry into lands, is to deny. or take away the right of entry.

Tolls
In a general sense, tolls signify any manner of customs, subsidy, prestation, imposition, or sum of money demanded for exporting or importing of any wares or merchandise, to be taken of the buyer.

Ton
Twenty hundred weight, each hundred weight being one hundred and twelve pounds avoirdupois.

Tone at the top
The messages and actions of senior management in relation to Fraud detection and deterrence.

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