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Tronage
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TronageEnglish law. A customary duty or toll for weighing wool, so called because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam.
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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.
Toll
1) Contracts. A sum of money for the use of something, generally applied to the consideration which is paid for the use of a road, bridge, or the like, of a public nature. Toll is also the compensation paid to a miller for grinding another person's grain. 2) To toll. Estates, rights. To bar, defeat, or take away; as to toll an entry into lands, is to deny. or take away the right of entry.
Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.
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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.
Triumviri capitales
Roman civil law. Officers who had charge of the prison, through whose intervention punishments were inflicted. They had eight lictors to execute their orders.
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
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.
Troy weight
A weight less ponderous than the avoirdupois weight, in the proportion of seven thousand, for the latter, to five thousand seven hundred and sixty, to the former.
Truce
International law. An agreement between belligerent parties, by which they mutually engage to forbear all acts of hostility against each other for some time, the war still continuing.
True bill
Practice. These words are endorsed on a bill of indictment, when a grand jury, after having heard the witnesses for the government, are of opinion that there is sufficient cause to put the defendant on his trial. Formerly, the endorsement was Billa vera, when legal proceedings were in Latin; it is still the practice to write on the back of the bill Ignoramus, when the jury do not find it to be a true bill.
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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.
Toll
1) Contracts. A sum of money for the use of something, generally applied to the consideration which is paid for the use of a road, bridge, or the like, of a public nature. Toll is also the compensation paid to a miller for grinding another person's grain. 2) To toll. Estates, rights. To bar, defeat, or take away; as to toll an entry into lands, is to deny. or take away the right of entry.
Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.
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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.
Triumviri capitales
Roman civil law. Officers who had charge of the prison, through whose intervention punishments were inflicted. They had eight lictors to execute their orders.
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
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.
Troy weight
A weight less ponderous than the avoirdupois weight, in the proportion of seven thousand, for the latter, to five thousand seven hundred and sixty, to the former.
Truce
International law. An agreement between belligerent parties, by which they mutually engage to forbear all acts of hostility against each other for some time, the war still continuing.
True bill
Practice. These words are endorsed on a bill of indictment, when a grand jury, after having heard the witnesses for the government, are of opinion that there is sufficient cause to put the defendant on his trial. Formerly, the endorsement was Billa vera, when legal proceedings were in Latin; it is still the practice to write on the back of the bill Ignoramus, when the jury do not find it to be a true bill.
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