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  • 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...
  • TRANSCRIPT
    An official copy of certain proceedings in a court. Thus, any person Interested in a judgment or other record of a court can obtain a transcript of it U. S. v. Gaussen, 19 Wall. 212, 22 L. Ed. 41; State v. Board of Equalization, 7 Nev. 95; Hastings School Dist. More...
  • TRANSCRIPTIO PEDIS FINIS LEVATI MITTENDO IN CANCELARIUM
    A writ which certified the foot of a fine levied before justices in eyre, etc., into the chancery. Reg. Orig. 669.
  • TRANSCRIPTIO RECOGNITIONIS FACTAE CORAM JUSTICIARIIS ITIN-ERANTIBUS, ETC…
    An old writ to certify a cognizance taken by justices in eyre. Reg. Orig. 152.
  • TRANSFER
    v. To carry or pass over; to pass a thing over to another; to convey.
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