Legal Term Dictionary

The term is used In a broad sense to designate those who patronize inns. Traveler is ope who travels in any way. Distance is not material. A townsman or neighbor may be a traveler, and therefore a guest at an inn, as well as he who comes from a distance More...

The term is used In a broad sense to designate those who patronize inns. Traveler is ope who travels in any way. Distance is not material. A townsman or neighbor may be a traveler, and therefore a guest at an inn, as well as he who comes from a distance or from a foreign Country. Walling v. Potter, 35 Conn. 185. Less...

In the language of pleading, a traverse signifles a denial. Thus; where a defendant denies any material allegation of fact in the plaintiff's declaration, he is said to traverse it, and the plea itself is thence frequently termed a "traverse." Brown. In criminal .practice. To put off or delay, the More...

In the language of pleading, a traverse signifles a denial. Thus; where a defendant denies any material allegation of fact in the plaintiff's declaration, he is said to traverse it, and the plea itself is thence frequently termed a "traverse." Brown. In criminal .practice. To put off or delay, the trial of an indictment till a succeeding, term. More properly, to deny or take issue upon an indictment. 4 Bl. Comm. 351. -Common traverse. A simple and direct denial of the material allegations of the opposite pleading, concluding to the country, and without inducement or absque soc-General traverse. One preceded by a general inducement, and denying in general terms all that is last before alleged on the opposite side, instead of pursuing the words of the allegations which it denies. Gould, PI. vii. 5.-Special traverse. A peculiar form of traverse or denial, the design of which, as distinguished from a common traverse, is to explain or qualify the denial, instead of putting it in the direct and absolute form. It consists of an affirmative and a negative part, -the first setting- forth the new affirmative matter tending to -explain or qualify the denial, and technically called the "inducement," and the latter constituting the direct denial itself, and technically called the "absque hoc" Steph. PI. 16^-180; Allen v. Stevens, 29 N. J. Law, 513; Chambers v. Hunt 18 N. J. Law, 352; People v. Pullman's Car Co., 175 III. 125, 51 N. E. 664, 64 L. R. A. 366.-Traverse jury. A petit jury; a trial jury; a jury impaneled to try an action or prosecution, as distinguished from a grand jury.-Traverse of indictment or presentment. The taking issue upon and contradicting or denying some chief point of it. Jacob. -Traverse of office. The proving that an inquisition made of lands or goods by the escheator is defective and untruly made. Tomlins. It is the challenging, by a subject, of an inquest of office, as being defective and untruly made. Mozley & Whitley.-Traverse npon a traverse. One growing out of the same point or subject-matter as is embraced in a precede ing traverse on the other side. Less...

In pleading. One who traverses or denies. A prisoner or party indicted; so called from his traversing the Indictment.

In pleading. One who traverses or denies. A prisoner or party indicted; so called from his traversing the Indictment. Less...

This is a pleading in chancery, and consists of a denial put in by the plaintiff on behalf of the defendant, generally denying all the statements in the plaintiff's bill. The effect of it is to put the plaintiff upon proof of the whole contents of his bill, and Is More...

This is a pleading in chancery, and consists of a denial put in by the plaintiff on behalf of the defendant, generally denying all the statements in the plaintiff's bill. The effect of it is to put the plaintiff upon proof of the whole contents of his bill, and Is only resorted to for the purpose of saving time, and in a case where the plaintiff can safely dispense with an answer. A copy of the note must be served on the defendant Brown. Less...

A traitor.

A traitor. Less...

An instrument of prison discipline, being a wheel or cylinder with an horizontal axis, having steps attached to it up which the prisoners walk, and thus put the axis in motion. The men hold on by a fixed rail, and, as their weight presses down the step upon which they More...

An instrument of prison discipline, being a wheel or cylinder with an horizontal axis, having steps attached to it up which the prisoners walk, and thus put the axis in motion. The men hold on by a fixed rail, and, as their weight presses down the step upon which they tread, they ascend the next step, and thus drive the wheel. Enc. Brit. Less...

Having the nature or guilt of treason.

Having the nature or guilt of treason. Less...

A treasure is a thing hidden or buried in the earth, on which no one can prove'his property, and which is discovered by chance. Civil Code La. art 3423, par. 2. See TREASURE-THOVE..

A treasure is a thing hidden or buried in the earth, on which no one can prove'his property, and which is discovered by chance. Civil Code La. art 3423, par. 2. See TREASURE-THOVE.. Less...

Literally, treasure found. Money or coin, gold, silver, plate or bullion found hidden in the earth or other private place, the owner thereof being unknown. 1 Bl. Comm. 205. Called In Latin "thesaurus inventus;" and in Saxon "fyn-deringa" See Huthmacher v Harris, 38 Pa. 409, 80 Am. Dec. 502; LIvermore More...

Literally, treasure found. Money or coin, gold, silver, plate or bullion found hidden in the earth or other private place, the owner thereof being unknown. 1 Bl. Comm. 205. Called In Latin "thesaurus inventus;" and in Saxon "fyn-deringa" See Huthmacher v Harris, 38 Pa. 409, 80 Am. Dec. 502; LIvermore v. White, 74 Me 456, 43 Am. Rep. 600; Sovern v. Yoran, 16 Or. 269, 20 Pac. 100, 8 Am. St Rep. 293. Less...

In English law. He whose charge was to put the lord treasurer and the rest of the judges of the exchequer in remembrance of such things as were called on and dealt in for the sovereign's behoof. There is still one in Scotland. Wharton.

In English law. He whose charge was to put the lord treasurer and the rest of the judges of the exchequer in remembrance of such things as were called on and dealt in for the sovereign's behoof. There is still one in Scotland. Wharton. Less...