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Torture
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TorturePunishments. A punishment inflicted in some countries on supposed criminals to induce them to confess their crimes, and to reveal their associates.
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Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
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Tort
An injury; a wrong; hence the expression an executor de son tort, of his own wrong.
Tort-feasor
Name given to a person or persons who have committed a tort.
Tortfeasor
A wrong-doer, one who does wrong; one who commits a trespass or is guilty of a tort.
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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.
Tort-feasor
Name given to a person or persons who have committed a tort.
Torture
Total
Complete; containing the whole; as the total amount of an account is all the items of such account added together; total incapacity, is an absolute and complete incapacity to do a thing. A married woman is totally incapable to make a contract, because, although having intelligence, she has not legal capacity and an idiot is totally incapable to enter into a contract, because he has no will.
Total loss
A technical expression, importing an utter loss of the property for the voyage, and no more.
Totality
The whole sum or quantity.
Totidem verbis
In so many words.
Toties quoties
As often as the thing shall happen.
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Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
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Tort
An injury; a wrong; hence the expression an executor de son tort, of his own wrong.
Tort-feasor
Name given to a person or persons who have committed a tort.
Tortfeasor
A wrong-doer, one who does wrong; one who commits a trespass or is guilty of a tort.
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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.
Tort-feasor
Name given to a person or persons who have committed a tort.
Torture
Total
Complete; containing the whole; as the total amount of an account is all the items of such account added together; total incapacity, is an absolute and complete incapacity to do a thing. A married woman is totally incapable to make a contract, because, although having intelligence, she has not legal capacity and an idiot is totally incapable to enter into a contract, because he has no will.
Total loss
A technical expression, importing an utter loss of the property for the voyage, and no more.
Totality
The whole sum or quantity.
Totidem verbis
In so many words.
Toties quoties
As often as the thing shall happen.
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