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Transference






Transference

Scotch law. The name of an action by which a suit, which was pending at the time the parties died, is transferred from the deceased to his representatives, in the same condition in which it stood formerly. If it be the pursuer who is dead, the action is called a transference active; if the defender, it is a transference passive.

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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.

Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.

Suit
An action. The word suit in the 25th section of the judiciary act of 1789, applies to any proceeding in a court of justice, in which the plaintiff pursues, in such court, the remedy which the law affords him. An application for a prohibition is therefore a suit.

Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.

Parties
Contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement.

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.

Pursuer
Canon law. The name by which the complainant or plaintiff is known in the ecclesiastical courts.

Dead
Something which has no life; figuratively, something of no value.

Transference
Scotch law. The name of an action by which a suit, which was pending at the time the parties died, is transferred from the deceased to his representatives, in the same condition in which it stood formerly. If it be the pursuer who is dead, the action is called a transference active; if the defender, it is a transference passive.

Active
The opposite of passive. We say active debts, or debts due to us;passive debts are those we owe.

Defender
Canon law. The name by which the defendant or respondent is known in the ecclesiastical courts.

Passive
Common law. All the sums of which one is a debtor. It is used in contradistinction to active. . By active debts are understood those which may be employed in furnishing assets to a merchant to pay those which he owes, which are called passive debts.



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Transaction
Contracts, civil law. An agreement between two or more persons, who for the purpose of preventing or putting an end to a law-suit, adjust their differences by mutual consent, in the manner which they agree on; in Louisiana this contract must be reduced to writing.

Transcript
A copy of an original writing or deed.

Transfer
Contracts The act by which the owner of a thing delivers it to another person, with the intent of passing the rights which he has in it to the latter.

Transfer of shares
A transfer of shares is where an existing shareholder transfers issued shares to another person who is then registered as the holder of those shares.

Transferee
He to whom a transfer is made.

Transferor
One who makes a transfer.

Transferring or assigning copyright
When an author or other holder of the copyright authorizes another to use a right or rights to a work. For example, a writer may sell the right to publish her article in an electronic outlet such as a website.

Transgression
The violation of a law.

Transhipment
Maritime law. The act of taking the cargo out of one ship and loading it in another.

Transire
English law. A warrant for the custom-house to let goods pass: a permit.

Transit alien
An alien in immediate and continuous transit through the United States, with or without a visa, including, 1) aliens who qualify as persons entitled to pass in transit to and from the United Nations Headquarters District and foreign countries and 2) foreign government officials and their spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children in transit.

Transit without visa
(TWOV) A transit alien traveling without a nonimmigrant visa under section 233 of the INA. An alien admitted under agreements with a transportation line, which guarantees his immediate and continuous passage to a foreign destination.

Transition quarter
The three-month period

Transitional childcare
A welfare program by which welfare recipients who stop receiving afdc due to employment, but who can't afford to pay childcare costs, receive subsidized childcare assistance, usually for one year.

Transitory
That which lasts but a short time, as transitory facts that which may be laid in different places, as a transitory action.

Transitory action
Practice, pleading Actions are transitory when the venue may lawfully be laid in any county, though the cause of action arose out of the jurisdiction of the court.

Transitus
The act of going, or of removing goods, from one place to another. The transitus of goods from a seller commences the moment he has delivered them to an agent for the purpose of being carried to another place, and ends when the delivery is complete, which delivery may be by putting the purchaser into actual possession of the goods, or by making him a symbolical delivery.

Translation
The copy made in one language of what has been written, or spoken in another.

Transmission
Civil law. The right which heirs or legatees may have of passing to their successors, the inheritance or legacy to which they were entitled, if they happen to die without having exercised their rights.

Transmittal form
Form required in certain courts for transmitting documents for filing.

Transpack
In the US penitentiary slang, to pack one's belongings for a transfer.

Transportation
Punishment. In the English law, this punishment is inflicted by virtue of sundry statutes; it was unknown to the common law. 2 H. Bl. 223. It is a part of the judgment or sentence of the court, that the party shall be transported or sent into exile.



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Transaction
Contracts, civil law. An agreement between two or more persons, who for the purpose of preventing or putting an end to a law-suit, adjust their differences by mutual consent, in the manner which they agree on; in Louisiana this contract must be reduced to writing.

Transcript
A copy of an original writing or deed.

Transfer
Contracts The act by which the owner of a thing delivers it to another person, with the intent of passing the rights which he has in it to the latter.

Transfer of shares
A transfer of shares is where an existing shareholder transfers issued shares to another person who is then registered as the holder of those shares.

Transferee
He to whom a transfer is made.

Transference

Transferor
One who makes a transfer.

Transferring or assigning copyright
When an author or other holder of the copyright authorizes another to use a right or rights to a work. For example, a writer may sell the right to publish her article in an electronic outlet such as a website.

Transgression
The violation of a law.

Transhipment
Maritime law. The act of taking the cargo out of one ship and loading it in another.

Transire
English law. A warrant for the custom-house to let goods pass: a permit.

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