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  • TOUCH
    In insurance law. To stop at a port If there he liberty granted by the policy to touch, or to touch and stay, at an intermediate port on the passage, the better opinion now is that the insured may trade there, when consistent with the object and the furtherance of More...
  • TOUCHING A DEAD BODY
    It was an ancient superstition that the body of a murdered man would bleed freshly when touched by his murderer. Hence, In old criminal law, this was resorted to as a means of ascertaining the guilt or innocence of a person suspected of the murder.
  • TOUJOURS ET UNCORE PRIST
    L. Fr. Always and still ready. This Is the name of a plea of tender.
  • TOUR D'ECHELLE
    In French law. An easement consisting of the right to rest ladders upon the adjoining estate, when necessary in order to repair a party-wall or buildings supported by it. Also the vacant space surrounding a building left unoccupied In order to facilitate its reparation when necessary. Herl. Repert.
  • TOURN
    In old English law. A court of record, having criminal jurisdiction, in each county, held before the sheriff, twice a year, in one place after another, following a certain circuit or rotation.
  • TOUT
    Fr. All; whole; entirely. Tout temps prist, always ready. Tout ee que la lot ne defend pas est perniis. Everything is permitted which is not forbidden by law.
  • TOUT TEMPS PRIST
    L. Fr. Always ready. The emphatic words of the old plea of tender; the defendant alleging that he has always been ready, and still is ready, to discharge the debt 8 BL Comm. 803 ; 2 Salk. 622.
  • TOUT UN SOUND
    Lb Fr. All one sound; Bounding the same; idem sonans. Toute exception, non surveillee tend A prendre la place da prinoipe. Every exception not watched tends to assume the place of the principle.
  • TOWAGE
    The act or service of towing ships and vessels, usually by means of a small steamer called a "tug." That which is given for towing ships in rivers. Towage is the drawing a ship or barge along the water by another ship or boat, fastened to her, or by men More...
  • TO-WIT
    That is to say; namely; "cet; videlicet"
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