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  • 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.
  • TRANSMISSION
    In the civil law. Tbe right which heirs or legatees may have of passing to their successors the inheritance or legacy to which they were entitled, if they happen to die without havingexercised their rights. Doniat liv. 3, t. i, s. 10; 4 Toullier. no. 186; Dig. 50, 17, 54; More...
  • TRANSPORT
    In old New York law. A" conveyance of land. . . .tr.
  • TRANSPORTATION
    The removal of goods or persons from one place to another, by a carrier. See Railrpad Co. v. Pratt, 552 Wall. 133, 22 L. Ed. 827; Interstate Commerce Com'n v. Brimson, }54 U. S. 447,, 14 Pup. Ct 1125, 38 L. Ed. 1047; Gloucester Ferry Co. v. Pennsylvania, 114 Xk More...
  • TRANSUMPTS
    In Scotch law, an action of transumpt is an action competent to any one having a partial Interest in a writing, or immediate use for it, to support his title or defenses in other actions. It is directed against the custodier of the writing calling upon him to exhibit it More...
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