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Triumviri capitales
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Triumviri capitalesRoman civil law. Officers who had charge of the prison, through whose intervention punishments were inflicted. They had eight lictors to execute their orders.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
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.
Charge
1) Wills, devises. An obligation which a testator imposes on his devisee. 2) Contracts. An obligation entered into by the owner of an estate which makes the estate responsible for its performance. 3) Practice. The opinion expressed by the court to the jury, on the law arising out of a case before them.
Prison
A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison.
Intervention
Civil law. The act by which a third party becomes a party in a suit pending between other persons. The intervention is made either to be joined to the plaintiff, and to claim the same thing he does, or some other thing connected with it or, to join the defendant, and with him to oppose the claim of the plaintiff, which it-is his interest to defeat.
Were
The name of a fine among the Saxons imposed upon a murderer
Execute
To complete; to sign; to carry out according to its terms.
Orders
1) Rules made by a court or other competent jurisdiction. The formula is generally in those words: It is ordered, &c. 2) Orders also signify the instructions given by the owner to the captain or commander of a ship which he is to follow in the course of the vovage.
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Trinity term
English law. One of the four terms of the courts; it begins on the 22d day of May, and ends on the 12th of June.
Triors
Practice. Persons appointed according to law to try whether a person challenged to the favor is or is not qualified to serve on the jury. They do not exceed two in number without the consent of the prosecutor and defendant, or some special case is alleged by one of them, or when only one juror has been sworn and two triors are appointed with him.
Tripartite
Consisting of three parts, as a deed tripartite, between A of the first part, B of the second part, and C of the third part.
Triplication
Pleading. This was formerly used in pleading instead of rebutter.
Tritavus
The male ascendant in the sixth degree was so called among the Romans. For the female ascendant in the same degree, the term is tritavia. In forming genealogical tables this convenient term is still used.
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Trivial
Of small importance. It is a rule in equity that a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as being below the dignity of the court.
Trojan horse
A type of computer program that remains inert (and possibly hidden) until activated by an external event such as a date. Used as Viruses to disrupt or destroy computer operations, or used to open a Trapdoor for unauthorized access.
Tronage
English law. A customary duty or toll for weighing wool, so called because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam.
Trover
Remedies. Trover signifies finding. The remedy is called an action of trover; it is brought to recover the value of personal chattels, wrongfully converted by another to his own use; the form supposed that the defendant might have acquired the possession of the property lawfully, namely, by finding, but if he did not, by bringing the action the plaintiff waives the trespass; no damages can therefore be recovered for the taking, all must be for the conversion.
Trover and conversion
The action for damages for a conversion, maintainable by him who has the right to immediate possession. 3 Bl. Com. 152; 127 Mass. 64.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
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.
Charge
1) Wills, devises. An obligation which a testator imposes on his devisee. 2) Contracts. An obligation entered into by the owner of an estate which makes the estate responsible for its performance. 3) Practice. The opinion expressed by the court to the jury, on the law arising out of a case before them.
Prison
A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison.
Intervention
Civil law. The act by which a third party becomes a party in a suit pending between other persons. The intervention is made either to be joined to the plaintiff, and to claim the same thing he does, or some other thing connected with it or, to join the defendant, and with him to oppose the claim of the plaintiff, which it-is his interest to defeat.
Were
The name of a fine among the Saxons imposed upon a murderer
Execute
To complete; to sign; to carry out according to its terms.
Orders
1) Rules made by a court or other competent jurisdiction. The formula is generally in those words: It is ordered, &c. 2) Orders also signify the instructions given by the owner to the captain or commander of a ship which he is to follow in the course of the vovage.
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Trinity term
English law. One of the four terms of the courts; it begins on the 22d day of May, and ends on the 12th of June.
Triors
Practice. Persons appointed according to law to try whether a person challenged to the favor is or is not qualified to serve on the jury. They do not exceed two in number without the consent of the prosecutor and defendant, or some special case is alleged by one of them, or when only one juror has been sworn and two triors are appointed with him.
Tripartite
Consisting of three parts, as a deed tripartite, between A of the first part, B of the second part, and C of the third part.
Triplication
Pleading. This was formerly used in pleading instead of rebutter.
Tritavus
The male ascendant in the sixth degree was so called among the Romans. For the female ascendant in the same degree, the term is tritavia. In forming genealogical tables this convenient term is still used.
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Trivial
Of small importance. It is a rule in equity that a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as being below the dignity of the court.
Trojan horse
A type of computer program that remains inert (and possibly hidden) until activated by an external event such as a date. Used as Viruses to disrupt or destroy computer operations, or used to open a Trapdoor for unauthorized access.
Tronage
English law. A customary duty or toll for weighing wool, so called because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam.
Trover
Remedies. Trover signifies finding. The remedy is called an action of trover; it is brought to recover the value of personal chattels, wrongfully converted by another to his own use; the form supposed that the defendant might have acquired the possession of the property lawfully, namely, by finding, but if he did not, by bringing the action the plaintiff waives the trespass; no damages can therefore be recovered for the taking, all must be for the conversion.
Trover and conversion
The action for damages for a conversion, maintainable by him who has the right to immediate possession. 3 Bl. Com. 152; 127 Mass. 64.
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