Legal Term Dictionary

Poisonous; containing poison.

Poisonous; containing poison. Less...

A poison; a toxic agent; any substance capable of producing toxlcaton or poisoning.

A poison; a toxic agent; any substance capable of producing toxlcaton or poisoning. Less...

In English law. Originally, a vill or tithing; but now a generic term, which comprehends under it the several species of cities, boroughs, and common towns. 1 Bl. Comm. 114. In American law. A civil and political division of a state, varying in extent and Importance, but usually one of More...

In English law. Originally, a vill or tithing; but now a generic term, which comprehends under it the several species of cities, boroughs, and common towns. 1 Bl. Comm. 114. In American law. A civil and political division of a state, varying in extent and Importance, but usually one of the divisions of a county. In the New England states, the town is the political unit and is a municipal corporation. In some other states, where the county is the unit the town is merely one of its subdivisions, but possesses some powers of local self-government. In still other states, such subdivisions of a county are. called "townships," and "town" is the name of a village, borough, or smaller city. See Herrman v. Guttenberg, 62 N. J. Law,. 605, 43 Atl. 703; Van Riper v. Parsons, 40 N. J. Law, 1; State v. Denny, 118 Ind. 449, 21 N. E. 274, 4 L. R. A. 65; Sessions v. State, 115 Ga. 18, 41 S. E. 259; Milford v. Godfrey, 1 Pick. (Mass.) 97; Enfield v. Jordan, 119 U. S. 680, 7 Sup. Ct 358, 80 L. Ed, 523; Rogers v. Galloway Female College, 64 Ark. 627, 44 S. W. 454, 39 L. R. A. 636; Railway Co. v. Oconto, 50 Wis. 189, 6 N; W. 607, 36 Am. Rep. 840; Lovejoy v. Foxcroft 91 Me. 367, 40 Atl. 141; Bloomfleld v. Charter Oak Bank, 121 U. S. 121, 7 Sup. Ct 865, 30 L. Ed. 923; Lynch v. Rutland, 66 Vt 570, 29 Aa 1015. -Town agent. Under the prohibitory liquor laws in force in some of the (few England states a town agent is a person appointed in each town to purchase intoxicating liquors for tbe town and having the exclusive right to sell the same for the permitted purposes, medical, mechanical, scientific, etc. He either receives a fixed salary or is permitted to make a small profit on his sales. The stock of liquors belongs to the town, and is bought with its money. See Black, Intox. Liq. ?? 204, 205.-Town cansc. In English practice. A cause tried at the sittings for London and Middlesex. 3 Steph. Comm. 517.-Town-clerk. In those states where the town ia the unit for local self-government the town-clerk is a principal officer who keeps the records, Issues calls for town-meetings* and performs generally the duties of a secretary to the political organization. See Seamons v. Fitts, 21R. 1.286.42 AtL 863.-Town collector. One of the officers of a town charged with collecting the taxes assessed for town purposes. -Town commissioner. In some of the states where the town is the political unit the town commissioners constitute a board of administrative officers charged with the general management of the town's business.-Town-crier. An officer in a town whose business It is to make proclamations.-Town-hall. The building maintained by a town for town-meetings and the offices of the municipal authorities.-Town-meeting. Under the municipal organization of the New England states, the town-meeting is a legal assembly of the qualified voters of a town, held at stated intervals or on call, for the purpose of electing town officers, and of discussing and deciding on questions relating to tbe pub? lie business, property, and expenses of the town* See In re Foley, 8 Misc. Rep. 57, 28 N. T. Sunn. 608; Railroad Co. v. Mallory, 101 HI. 588; Comstock v. Ucooln School Committee, 17 R. I. 827, 24 Atl. 145.-Town order or warrant. An official direction in writing by the auditing officers of a town, directing the treasurer to pay a sum of money.-Town pound. A place of confinement maintained by a town for es* trays.-Town purpose. When, it is said that taxation by a town, or the expenditure of the town's money, must be for town purposes, it is meant that tbe purposes must be public with respect to the town; i. e., concern the welfare and advantage of the town as a whole.-Town-reeve. The reeve or chief officer of a town.- Town tax. Such tax as a town may levy for its peculiar expenses; as distinguished from a * county or state tax.-Town treasurer. The treasurer of a town which is an organised municipal corporation. . Less...

(Lat. toxicum; Gr. toxikon.) In medical Jurisprudence. Poisonous; having the character or producing the effects of a poison; referable to a poison; produced by or resulting from a poison. ---Toxic convulsions. Such as are caused by the action of a poison on the nervous system. ---Toxic dementia. Weakness of mind More...

(Lat. toxicum; Gr. toxikon.) In medical Jurisprudence. Poisonous; having the character or producing the effects of a poison; referable to a poison; produced by or resulting from a poison. ---Toxic convulsions. Such as are caused by the action of a poison on the nervous system. ---Toxic dementia. Weakness of mind or feeble cerebral activity, approaching imbecility, re-Suiting from continued use or administration of slow poisons or of the more active poisons in repeated small doses, as in cases of lead poisoning and in some cases of addiction to such drugs as opium or alcohol.-----Toxanemia. A condition of anemia (impoverishment or deficiency of blood) resulting from the action of certain toxic substances or agents.-Toxemia or toxiecmia. Blood-poisoning; the condition of the system caused by the presence of toxic agents in the circulation; including both septicemia and pyce-mia.----Toxicosis. A diseased state of the system due to the presence and action of any poison. Less...

To poison. Not used to describe the act of one who administers a poison, but the action of the drug or poison itself." -Intoxication. The state of being poisoned; the condition produced by the administration or introduction into the human system of a poison. This term is popularly used as More...

To poison. Not used to describe the act of one who administers a poison, but the action of the drug or poison itself." -Intoxication. The state of being poisoned; the condition produced by the administration or introduction into the human system of a poison. This term is popularly used as equivalent to "drunkenness, which, however, is more accurately described as "alcoholic intoxication."- Auto-intoxioation. Self-empoisonment from the absorption of the toxic products of interna] metabolism, e. g.t ptomaine poisoning. Less...

The science of poisons; that department of medical science which treats of poisons, their effect, their recognition, their antidotes, and generally of the diagnosis and therapeutics of poisoning.

The science of poisons; that department of medical science which treats of poisons, their effect, their recognition, their antidotes, and generally of the diagnosis and therapeutics of poisoning. Less...

In its widest sense, this term may denote any poison or toxicant; but as used in pathology and medical jurisprudence ft signifles, in general, any diffusible alkaloids! substance (as, the ptomaines, abrln, brucln, or serpent venoms), and in particular the poisonous.products of pathogenic (disease-producing) bacteria. -Anti-toxin. A product of pathogenic More...

In its widest sense, this term may denote any poison or toxicant; but as used in pathology and medical jurisprudence ft signifles, in general, any diffusible alkaloids! substance (as, the ptomaines, abrln, brucln, or serpent venoms), and in particular the poisonous.products of pathogenic (disease-producing) bacteria. -Anti-toxin. A product of pathogenic bacteria which, in sufficient quantities, will neutralise the toxin or poisonous product of the same bacteria. In therapeutics, a preventive remedy (administered by inoculation) against the. effect of certain kinds of toxins, venoms, and disease-germs, obtained from the blood of an animal which has previously been treated with repeated minute injections of the particular poison or germ to be neutralized.-Toxicomania. An excessive addiction to the use of toxic or poisonous drugs or other substances; a form of mania or affective insanity characterized by an irresistible impulse to indulgence in opium, cocaine, chloral, alcohol, etc.-Toxipnobia. Morbid dread of being poisoned; a form of insanity manifesting itself by an excessive and unfounded apprehension of death by poison. Less...

Lat In tne civil law. A beam or rafter of a house. Calvin. In old English law. A measure of grain, containing twenty-four shea ves; a thrave. Spelman.

Lat In tne civil law. A beam or rafter of a house. Calvin. In old English law. A measure of grain, containing twenty-four shea ves; a thrave. Spelman. Less...

In old English law. The track or trace # of a felon, by which he was pursued with the hue and cry; a foet-step, hoof-print, or wheel-track. Bract fols. 116, 121ft.

In old English law. The track or trace # of a felon, by which he was pursued with the hue and cry; a foet-step, hoof-print, or wheel-track. Bract fols. 116, 121ft. Less...

A lot piece or parcel of land, of greater or less size, the term not importing, in itself, any precise dimension. See Edwards v. Derrickson, 28 N. J. Law, 45. Traotent fabrilia fabri. Let smiths perform the work of smiths. 8 Co. Eplst.

A lot piece or parcel of land, of greater or less size, the term not importing, in itself, any precise dimension. See Edwards v. Derrickson, 28 N. J. Law, 45. Traotent fabrilia fabri. Let smiths perform the work of smiths. 8 Co. Eplst. Less...