Legal Term Dictionary

Lat In tne civil law. A shop-keeper. Dig. 14, 3, 5, 7. In old English law. A taverner or tavern-keeper. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12, | 17.

Lat In tne civil law. A shop-keeper. Dig. 14, 3, 5, 7. In old English law. A taverner or tavern-keeper. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12, | 17. Less...

In medical jurisprudence. This is another name for locomotor ataxia. Tabetic dementia is a form of mental derangement or insanity complicated with tabes dorsalis, which generally precedes, or sometimes follows, the mental attack.

In medical jurisprudence. This is another name for locomotor ataxia. Tabetic dementia is a form of mental derangement or insanity complicated with tabes dorsalis, which generally precedes, or sometimes follows, the mental attack. Less...

A synopsis or condensed statement bringing together numerous items or details so as to be comprehended in a single view; as genealogical tables, exhibiting the names and relationships of all the persona composing a family; life and annuity tables, used by actuaries; interest tables, etc. -Table de Marbre. Fr. In More...

A synopsis or condensed statement bringing together numerous items or details so as to be comprehended in a single view; as genealogical tables, exhibiting the names and relationships of all the persona composing a family; life and annuity tables, used by actuaries; interest tables, etc. -Table de Marbre. Fr. In old French law. Table of Marble; a principal seat of the admiralty, so called. These Tables de Marbre are frequently mentioned in the Ordonnance of the Marine. Burrill.-Table ef eases. An alphabetical list of the adjudged cases cited, referred to, or digested in a legal text-book, volume of reports, or digest, with references to the sections, pages, or paragraphs where they are respectively cited, etc., which is commonly either prefixed or appended to the volume.- Table rents. In English law. Payments which used to be made to bishops, etc, reserved and appropriated to their table or house*-keeoing. Wharton. Less...

In Louisiana. A list of creditors of an insolvent estate, stating what each is entitled to. Taylor v. Hollander, 4 Mart N. S. (La.) 536.

In Louisiana. A list of creditors of an insolvent estate, stating what each is entitled to. Taylor v. Hollander, 4 Mart N. S. (La.) 536. Less...

Lat. In the civil law. A table or tablet; a thin sheet of wood, which, when covered with wax, was used for writing.

Lat. In the civil law. A table or tablet; a thin sheet of wood, which, when covered with wax, was used for writing. Less...

Lat A plank in a shipwreck. This phrase is used metaphorically to designate the power subsisting in a third mortgagee, who took without notice of the second mortgage, to acquire-the flrst Incumbrance, attach it to his own, and thus squeeze out and get satisfaction, before the second is admitted to More...

Lat A plank in a shipwreck. This phrase is used metaphorically to designate the power subsisting in a third mortgagee, who took without notice of the second mortgage, to acquire-the flrst Incumbrance, attach it to his own, and thus squeeze out and get satisfaction, before the second is admitted to the fund. 1 Story, Eq. Jur. I 414; 2 Ves. Ch. 573. Less...

Lat In Roman law. Tables. Writings of any kind used as evidences of a transaction. Brissonius. -Tabulae nuptlales. In the civil law. A written record of a marriage; or the agreement as to the dos.

Lat In Roman law. Tables. Writings of any kind used as evidences of a transaction. Brissonius. -Tabulae nuptlales. In the civil law. A written record of a marriage; or the agreement as to the dos. Less...

Lat A notary, or tabellio. Calvin.

Lat A notary, or tabellio. Calvin. Less...

In old records. A kind of customary payment by a tenant. Cowell. -Tao free. In old records. Free from the common duty or imposition of tac. Cowell.

In old records. A kind of customary payment by a tenant. Cowell. -Tao free. In old records. Free from the common duty or imposition of tac. Cowell. Less...

Silent; not expressed; implied or inferred; manifested by the refraining from contradiction or objection; inferred from the situation and circumstances, in the absence of express matter. Thus, tacit consent is consent Inferred from the fact that the party kept silence when he had an opportunity to forbid or refuse, -Tacit More...

Silent; not expressed; implied or inferred; manifested by the refraining from contradiction or objection; inferred from the situation and circumstances, in the absence of express matter. Thus, tacit consent is consent Inferred from the fact that the party kept silence when he had an opportunity to forbid or refuse, -Tacit acceptance. In the civil law, a tacit acceptance of an inheritance takes place when some act is done by the heir which necessarily supposes his intention to accept and which be would hare no rigbt to do but in his capacity as heir. Civ. Code La. 1900, art. 988.-Tacit hypothecation. In the civil law. a species of lien or mortgage which is created by operation of law without any express agreement of the parties. Mackeld. Rom. Law, ? 348. In admiralty law, this term is sometimes applied to a maritime lien, which is not, strictly speaking, an hypothecation in the Roman sense of the term, though it resembles it. ? See The Nestor, 1 Sumn. 73. 18 Fed. Cas. 9.-Tacit law. A law which derives its authority from the common consent of the people without any legislative enactment 1 Bouv. Inst. no. 120.-Tacit 'mortgage. In the law of Louisiana. The law alone in certain cases gives to the creditor a mortgage on the property of his debtor, without it being requisite that the parties should stipulate it. This is called "legal mortgage." It is called also "tacit mortgage," because it is established by the law without the aid of any agreement Civ. Code La. art 3311.-Tacit relocation. In Scotch law. The tacit or implied renewal of a lease, inferred when the landlord, instead of warning a tenant to remove at the stipulated expiration of the lease, has allowed him to continue without making a new agreement. Bell, "Relocation."-Tacit tack. In Scotch law. An implied tack or lease; inferred from a tacksman's possessing peaceably after his tack is expired. 1 Forb. Inst, pt 2. p. 153. Tadta qnaedam habentnr pro expres-sis. 8 Coke, 4a Things unexpressed axe sometimes considered as expressed. Less...