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Trebucket
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TrebucketThe name of an engine of punishment, said to be synonymous with tumbrel.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
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.
Said
Before mentioned.
Tumbrel
punishment. A species of cart; according to Lord Coke, a dung-cart.
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Treble costs
Remedies. By treble costs, in the English law, is understood. Half the latter; so that in effect the treble costs amount only to the taxed costs, and three-fourths thereof.
Treble damages
Remedies. In actions arising ex contractu some statutes give treble damages; and these statutes have been liberally construed to mean actually treble damages; for example, if the jury give twenty dollars damages for a forcible entry the court will award forty dollars more, so as to make the total amount of damages sixty dollars.
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Treaty
International law. A treaty is a compact made between two or more independent nations with a view to the public welfare treaties are for a perpetuity, or for a considerable time. Those matters which are accomplished by a single act, and are at once perfected in their execution, are called agreements, conventions and pactions.
Treaty of peace
A treaty of peace is an agreement or contract made by belligerent powers, in which they agree to lay down their arms, and by which they stipulate the conditions of peace, and regulate the manner in which it is to be restored and supported
Treaty trader or investor
As a nonimmigrant class of admission, an alien coming to the United States, under the provisions of a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and the foreign state of such alien, to carry on substantial trade or to direct the operations of an enterprise in which he/she has invested a substantial amount of capital, and the alien’s spouse and unmarried minor children.
Treble costs
Remedies. By treble costs, in the English law, is understood. Half the latter; so that in effect the treble costs amount only to the taxed costs, and three-fourths thereof.
Treble damages
Remedies. In actions arising ex contractu some statutes give treble damages; and these statutes have been liberally construed to mean actually treble damages; for example, if the jury give twenty dollars damages for a forcible entry the court will award forty dollars more, so as to make the total amount of damages sixty dollars.
Trebucket
Tree
A woody plant, which in respect of thickness and height grows greater than any other plant.
Trepasser
One who couimits a trespass.
Tresaile
Tresaile or tresayle. Domestic relations. The grandfather's grandfather.
Trespass
Torts. An unlawful act committed with violence, ti et armis, to the person, property or relative rights of another. Every felony includes a tres-pass, in common parlance, such acts are not in general considered as tres-passes, yet they subject the offender to an action of trespass after his conviction or acquittal. 2) Remedies. The name of an action, instituted for the recovery of damages, for a wrong committed against the plaintiff, with immediate force; as an assault and battery against the person; an unlawful entry into his, land, and an unlawful injury with direct force to his personal property. It does not lie for a mere non-feasance, nor when the matter affected was not tangible.
Trespass de bonis asportatis
Practice. The action brought by the owner of goods for unlawfully taking and carrying them away, is so called. This action will lie for taking away another's goods, even though he should return them, because by such taking he has deprived the owner of his right to enjoy them.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
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.
Said
Before mentioned.
Tumbrel
punishment. A species of cart; according to Lord Coke, a dung-cart.
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Treble costs
Remedies. By treble costs, in the English law, is understood. Half the latter; so that in effect the treble costs amount only to the taxed costs, and three-fourths thereof.
Treble damages
Remedies. In actions arising ex contractu some statutes give treble damages; and these statutes have been liberally construed to mean actually treble damages; for example, if the jury give twenty dollars damages for a forcible entry the court will award forty dollars more, so as to make the total amount of damages sixty dollars.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Treaty
International law. A treaty is a compact made between two or more independent nations with a view to the public welfare treaties are for a perpetuity, or for a considerable time. Those matters which are accomplished by a single act, and are at once perfected in their execution, are called agreements, conventions and pactions.
Treaty of peace
A treaty of peace is an agreement or contract made by belligerent powers, in which they agree to lay down their arms, and by which they stipulate the conditions of peace, and regulate the manner in which it is to be restored and supported
Treaty trader or investor
As a nonimmigrant class of admission, an alien coming to the United States, under the provisions of a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and the foreign state of such alien, to carry on substantial trade or to direct the operations of an enterprise in which he/she has invested a substantial amount of capital, and the alien’s spouse and unmarried minor children.
Treble costs
Remedies. By treble costs, in the English law, is understood. Half the latter; so that in effect the treble costs amount only to the taxed costs, and three-fourths thereof.
Treble damages
Remedies. In actions arising ex contractu some statutes give treble damages; and these statutes have been liberally construed to mean actually treble damages; for example, if the jury give twenty dollars damages for a forcible entry the court will award forty dollars more, so as to make the total amount of damages sixty dollars.
Trebucket
Tree
A woody plant, which in respect of thickness and height grows greater than any other plant.
Trepasser
One who couimits a trespass.
Tresaile
Tresaile or tresayle. Domestic relations. The grandfather's grandfather.
Trespass
Torts. An unlawful act committed with violence, ti et armis, to the person, property or relative rights of another. Every felony includes a tres-pass, in common parlance, such acts are not in general considered as tres-passes, yet they subject the offender to an action of trespass after his conviction or acquittal. 2) Remedies. The name of an action, instituted for the recovery of damages, for a wrong committed against the plaintiff, with immediate force; as an assault and battery against the person; an unlawful entry into his, land, and an unlawful injury with direct force to his personal property. It does not lie for a mere non-feasance, nor when the matter affected was not tangible.
Trespass de bonis asportatis
Practice. The action brought by the owner of goods for unlawfully taking and carrying them away, is so called. This action will lie for taking away another's goods, even though he should return them, because by such taking he has deprived the owner of his right to enjoy them.
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