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Tontine
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TontineFrench law. The name of a partnership composed of creditors or, re-cipients of perpetual or life-rents or annuities, formed on the condition that the rents of those who may die, shall accrue to the survivors, either in whole or in part.
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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.
Partnership
Contracts. An agreement between two or more persons, for joining together their money, goods, labor and skill, or either or all of them, for the purpose of advancing fair trade, and of dividing the profits and losses arising from it, proportionably or otherwise, between them.
Perpetual
That which is to last without limitation as to time.
Condition
Persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more others, from which mutual rights and obligations arise.
Accrue
1) Literally to grow to; as the interest accrues on the principal. 2) To accrue means also to arise, to happen, to come to pass; as thestatute of limitations does not commence running until the cause of actionstatute of limitations has accrued.
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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.
Tonnage
Maritime law. The capacity of a ship or vessel.
Tontine
Took and carried away
Pleadings. In an indictment for simple larceny, the words "feloniously took and carried away" the goods stolen, are indispensable.
Tools
The Massachusetts act of assembly provided that "the tools of any debtor necessary for his trade and occupation, should be exempted from execution," was held to designate those implements which are commonly used by the hand of one man, in some manual labor necessary for his subsistence. The apparatus of a printing office, such as types, presses, &c. are not therefore included under the term tools.
Torrens land registration system
(Australia and several Canadian provinces). A land registration system invented by Robert Torrens and in which the government is the keeper of the master record of all land and their owners. In the Torrens system, a land title certificate suffices to show full, valid and indefeasible title.
Tort
An injury; a wrong; hence the expression an executor de son tort, of his own wrong.
Tortfeasor
A wrong-doer, one who does wrong; one who commits a trespass or is guilty of a tort.
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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.
Partnership
Contracts. An agreement between two or more persons, for joining together their money, goods, labor and skill, or either or all of them, for the purpose of advancing fair trade, and of dividing the profits and losses arising from it, proportionably or otherwise, between them.
Perpetual
That which is to last without limitation as to time.
Condition
Persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more others, from which mutual rights and obligations arise.
Accrue
1) Literally to grow to; as the interest accrues on the principal. 2) To accrue means also to arise, to happen, to come to pass; as thestatute of limitations does not commence running until the cause of actionstatute of limitations has accrued.
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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.
Tonnage
Maritime law. The capacity of a ship or vessel.
Tontine
Took and carried away
Pleadings. In an indictment for simple larceny, the words "feloniously took and carried away" the goods stolen, are indispensable.
Tools
The Massachusetts act of assembly provided that "the tools of any debtor necessary for his trade and occupation, should be exempted from execution," was held to designate those implements which are commonly used by the hand of one man, in some manual labor necessary for his subsistence. The apparatus of a printing office, such as types, presses, &c. are not therefore included under the term tools.
Torrens land registration system
(Australia and several Canadian provinces). A land registration system invented by Robert Torrens and in which the government is the keeper of the master record of all land and their owners. In the Torrens system, a land title certificate suffices to show full, valid and indefeasible title.
Tort
An injury; a wrong; hence the expression an executor de son tort, of his own wrong.
Tortfeasor
A wrong-doer, one who does wrong; one who commits a trespass or is guilty of a tort.
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