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  • TRANSIENT
    In poor-laws. A "transient person" is not exactly a person on a journey from one known place to another, but rather a wanderer ever on the tramp. Middlebury v. Waltham, 6 Vt. 203; Londonderry v. Landgrove, 66 Vt. 264, 29 Atl. 25a In Spanish law. A "transient foreigner" le one More...
  • TRANSIRE
    v. Lat. To go, or pass over; to pass from one thing, person, or place to another.
  • TRANSIRE
    n. In English law. A warrant or permit for the custom-house to let goods pass. Transit in rem jndieatam. It passes into a matter adjudged; It becomes converted into a res judicata or judgment. A contract upon which a judgment is obtained is said to pass in rem judvcatam. United More...
  • TRANSITIVE COVENANT
    See COVENANT
  • TRANSITUS
    Lat. Passage from one place to'another; transit. In transitu, on the passage, transit; or way. 2 Kent, Comm. 543.
  • TRANSITORY
    Passing from place to place; that may pass or be changed from one place to another; not confined to one place; the opposite of "local." -Transitory action. Actions are said to be either local or transitory. An action is "local", when the principal facts on which it is founded pertain More...
  • TRANSLADO
    Span. A transcript.
  • TRANSLATION
    The reproduction in one language of a book, document, , or speech delivered in another language. . The-transfer of property; but in this sense it Is seldom used. 2 Bl. Comm. 294. In ecclesiastical law. As applied to a bishop, the term denotes his removal from one diocese to another.
  • TRANSLATITIUM EDICTUM
    Lat In Roman law. The praetor, on his accession to office, did not usually publish an entirely new edict but retained the whole or a part of that promulgated by his predecessor, as being of an approved or permanently useful character. The portion thus repeated or handed down from year More...
  • TRANSLATIVE FACT
    A fact by mean of which a right is transferred or passes from one person to another; one, that is, which fulfills the double function of terminating the right of one person tp an object, and of originating the right of another to it.
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