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Totality
TotalityThe whole sum or quantity. RELATED TERMS-------------------------------------- Quantity Pleading. That which is susceptible of measure. SIMILAR TERMS-------------------------------------- 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. PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS-------------------------------------- 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 Punishments. A punishment inflicted in some countries on supposed criminals to induce them to confess their crimes, and to reveal their associates. 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 Totidem verbis In so many words. Toties quoties As often as the thing shall happen. Touch and stay These words are frequently introduced in policies of insurance, giving the party insured the right to stop and stay at certain designated points in the course of the voyage. A vessel which has the power to touch and stay at a place in the course of the voyage, must confine herself strictly to the terms of the liberty so given; for any attempt to trade at such a port during such a stay, as by shipping or landing goods, will amount to a species of deviation which will discharge the underwriters, unless the ship have also liberty to trade, as well as to touch and stay at such a place. Toujours et uncore prist Always, and still ready. This is the name of a plea of tender, as where a man is indebted to another, and he tenders the amount due, and after wards the creditor brings a suit, the defendant may plead the tender, and add that he has always been and is still ready to pay what he owes, which may be done by the formula toujours et uncore prist. He must then pay the money into court, and if the issue be found for him, the defendant will be exonerated from costs, and the plaintiff made justly liable for them. Tour d'echelle French law. Tour d'echelle is a right which the owner of an estate has of placing ladders on his neighbor's property to facilitate the reparation of a party wall, or of buildings which are supported by that wall. It is a species of servitude. We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for Totality. If you have a better definition for Totality than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of Totality may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on Totality and any other medical topic for the public at large.
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