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  • 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...
  • TRASLADO
    In Spanish law. A copy of a sight. White, New Recop. b. 8, tit 7, c .A copy of a document taken by the notary from the original, or a subsequent copy taker! from the protocol, and not a copy taken or; rectly from the matrix or protocol Downing v. More...
  • TRASSANS
    Drawing; one who draws. The drawer of a bill of exchange.
  • TRASSATUS
    One who is. drawn, or drawn upon. The drawee of a bill of exchange. Heinecc. de Camb. c 6, ?? 5, 6.
  • TRAUMA
    In medical jurisprudence.' A wound; any Injury to the body caused by e ternal violence. ----Traumatic. Caused by or resulting from a wound or any external injury; as, traumatic insanity, produced by an injury to or fracture of the skull with consequent pressure on the brain.-----Traumatism. A diseased condition of More...
  • TRAVAIL
    The act of childbearing. A woman is said to be to her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. Scott v. Donovan, 153 Mass. 378, 26 N. E. 871.
  • TRAVEL
    To go from one place to another at a distance; to journey; spoken of voluntary change of place. See White v. Beazley, 1 Barn. & Aid. 171; Hancock v. Rand, 94 N. Y. 1, 46 Am. Rep. 112; Gholson v. State, 53 Ala. 521, 25 Am. Rep. 652; Campbell v. More...
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