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  • TRIORS
    In practice Persons who are appointed to try challenges to jurors, 1 e., to hear and determine whether a juror challenged for favor is or is not qualified to serve. The lords chosen to try a peer, when indicted for felony, in the court of the lord high steward, are More...
  • TRIPARTITE
    In conveyancing. Of three parts; a term applied to an indenture to which there are three several parties, (of the first, second, and third parts,) and which is executed In triplicate.
  • TRIPLICACION
    L. Fr. In old pleading. A rejoinder in pleading; the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication. Britt c. 77.
  • TRIPLICATIO
    Lat. In the civil law. The reply of the plaintiff to the rejoinder of the defendant. It corresponds to the surrejoinder of common law. Inst 4, 14; Bract. 1. 5, t 5, c. L
  • TRISTRIS
    In old forest law. A freedom from the duty of attending the lord of a forest when engaged in the chase. Spelman.
  • TRITAVIA
    Lat In the civil law. A great-grandmother's great-grandmother; the female ascendant In the sixth degree.
  • TRITAVUS
    Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandfather's great-grandfather; the male ascendant in the sixth degree.
  • TRITHING
    In Saxon law. One of the territorial divisions of England, being the third part of a county, and comprising three or more hundreds. Within the trithlng there was a court held (called "trithing-mote") which resembled the court-leet but was inferior to the county court. -----Trithing-mote. The court held for a More...
  • TRIUMVIR
    Lat In old English law. A trithlng man or constable of three hundred. Cowell.
  • TRIUMVIRI CAPITALE8
    Lat In Roman law. Officers who had charge of the prison, through whose intervention punishments were inflicted. They had eight lictore to execute their orders. Vicat Voc Jur.
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