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  • TRAINBANDS
    The militia; the part of a community trained to martial exercises.
  • TRAISTIS
    In old Scotch law. ; A roll containing the particular dittay taken up on malefactors, which, with the porteous, is delivered by the justice clerk to the coroner, to the effect that the persons whose names are contained in the porteous may be attached, conform to the dittay contained in* More...
  • TRAITOR
    One who, being trusted, betrays; one guilty of treason.
  • TRAITOROUSLY
    In criminal pleading. An essential word In indictments for treason, ihe offense must be laid to have been committed traitorously. Whart Crim. Law, 100.
  • TRAJECTITIUS
    Lat In the civil law. Sent across the sea.
  • TRAM-WAYS
    Rails for conveyance of traffic along a road not owned, as a railway is, by those who lay down the rails and convey the traffic. Wharton.
  • TRAMP
    A strolling beggar; a vagrant or vagabond. See State v. Hogan, 63 Ohio St 202, 58 N. E. 572, 52 L It A. 863, SI Am. St Rep. 626; Miller v. State, 73 Ind. 92; Railway Co. v. Boyle, 115 Ca. 836, 42 8. E. 242, 59 L. R. A. More...
  • TRANSACT
    In Scotch law. To compound. Amb. 185.
  • TRANSACTIO
    Lat. In the civil law. The settlement of a suit or matter in controversy, by the litigating parties, between themselves, without referring it to arbitration. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 8, no. 14. An agreement by which a suit, either pending or about to be commenced, was forborne or More...
  • TRANSACTION
    In the civil law. A transaction or compromise ia an agreement between two or more persons, who, for preventing or putting an end to a lawsuit adjust their differences by mutual consent In the manner which they agree on, and which every one of them prefers to the hope of More...
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