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  • TERMES DE LA LEY
    Terms of the law. The name of a lexicon of the law French words and other technicalities of legal language in old times.
  • TERMINABLE PROPERTY
    This name is sometimes given to property of such a nature that its duration is not perpetual or indefinite, but is limited or liable to terminate upon the happening of an event or the expiration of a fixed term; e. g., a leasehold, a life-annuity, etc.
  • TERMINATING BUILDING SOCIETIES
    Societies, in England, where the members commence their monthly contributions on a particular day, and continue to pay them until the realization of shares to a given amount for each member, by the advance of the capital of the society to such members as required it, and the payment of More...
  • TERMINER
    L. Fr. To determine. See OYER AND TERMINER.
  • TERMINI
    Lat Ends; bounds; limiting or terminating points.
  • TERMINO
    In Spanish law. A common; common land. Common because of vicinage. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 1, c 6, | 1, note.
  • TERMINUM
    A day given to a defendant Spelman.
  • TERMINUM QUI PRETERIIT,WRIT OF ENTRY AD
    A writ which lay for the reversioner, when the possession was withheld by the lessee, or a stranger, after the determination of a lease for years. Brown.
  • TERMINUS
    Boundary; a limit either of space or time. The phrases "terminus a quo" and "terminus ad quern" are used, respectively, to designate the starting point and terminating point of a private way. In the case of a street road, or railway, either end may be, and commonly is, referred to More...
  • TERMINUS HOMINIS
    In English ecclesiastical practice. A time for the determination of appeals, shorter than the terminus juris, appointed by the judge. HalUfaXr Civil Law, b. 3, c. 11, no. 36.
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