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Twenty years
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Twenty yearsThe lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights.
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Lapse
Ecclesiastical law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right or power to present or collate to a vacant benefice, from, a person vested with such right, to another, in consequence of some act of negligence of the former.
Years
Estate for years.
Presumption
evidence. An inference as to the existence of one fact, from the existence of some other fact, founded on a previous experience of their connexion
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.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Negative
This word has several significations: 1) It is used in contradistinction to giving assent; thus we say the president has put his negative upon such a bill. 2. It is also used in contradistinction to affirmative; as, a negative does not always admit of the simple and direct proof of which an affirmative is capable. When a party affirms a negative in his pleadings, and without the establishment of which, by evidence, he cannot recover or defend himself, the burden of the proof lies upon him, and he must prove the negative.
Establish
This word occurs frequently in the Constitution of the United $tates, and it is there used in different meanings. 1) To settle firmly, to fix unalterably; 2) To make or form as, to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, which evidently does not mean that these laws shall be unalterably established as justice. 3) To found, to create, to regulate; 4. To found, recognize, confirm or admit; 5) To create, to ratify, or confirm.
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Tutor alienus
English law. The name given to a stranger who enters into the lands of an infant within the age of fourteen), and takes the profits.
Tutor propertus
The name given to one who is rightly a guardian in socage in contradistinction, to a tutor alienus.
Tutorship
The power which an individual, sui juris, has to take care of the person of one who is unable to take care of himself. Tutorship differs from curatorship.
Tutrix
A woman who is appointed to the office of a tutor.
Twelve tables
The name given to a code of Roman laws, commonly called the Law of the Twelve Tables.
Twenty years
Tyburn ticket
English late. A certificate given to the prosecutor of a felon to conviction, is so called.
Tyranny
Government. The violation of those laws which regulate the division and the exercises of the sovereign power of the state. It is a violation of -its constitution.
Tyrant
Government. The chief magistrate of the state, whether legitimate or otherwise, who violates the constitution to act arbitrarily contrary to justice.
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Lapse
Ecclesiastical law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right or power to present or collate to a vacant benefice, from, a person vested with such right, to another, in consequence of some act of negligence of the former.
Years
Estate for years.
Presumption
evidence. An inference as to the existence of one fact, from the existence of some other fact, founded on a previous experience of their connexion
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.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Negative
This word has several significations: 1) It is used in contradistinction to giving assent; thus we say the president has put his negative upon such a bill. 2. It is also used in contradistinction to affirmative; as, a negative does not always admit of the simple and direct proof of which an affirmative is capable. When a party affirms a negative in his pleadings, and without the establishment of which, by evidence, he cannot recover or defend himself, the burden of the proof lies upon him, and he must prove the negative.
Establish
This word occurs frequently in the Constitution of the United $tates, and it is there used in different meanings. 1) To settle firmly, to fix unalterably; 2) To make or form as, to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, which evidently does not mean that these laws shall be unalterably established as justice. 3) To found, to create, to regulate; 4. To found, recognize, confirm or admit; 5) To create, to ratify, or confirm.
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Tutor alienus
English law. The name given to a stranger who enters into the lands of an infant within the age of fourteen), and takes the profits.
Tutor propertus
The name given to one who is rightly a guardian in socage in contradistinction, to a tutor alienus.
Tutorship
The power which an individual, sui juris, has to take care of the person of one who is unable to take care of himself. Tutorship differs from curatorship.
Tutrix
A woman who is appointed to the office of a tutor.
Twelve tables
The name given to a code of Roman laws, commonly called the Law of the Twelve Tables.
Twenty years
Tyburn ticket
English late. A certificate given to the prosecutor of a felon to conviction, is so called.
Tyranny
Government. The violation of those laws which regulate the division and the exercises of the sovereign power of the state. It is a violation of -its constitution.
Tyrant
Government. The chief magistrate of the state, whether legitimate or otherwise, who violates the constitution to act arbitrarily contrary to justice.
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