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  • TRIVERBIAL DAYS
    In the civil law. Juridical days; days allowed to the praetor for deciding causes; days on which the prwtor might speak the three characteristic words of his office, viz., do, dicof addico. Calvin. Otherwise called "dies fasti.19 8 BL Comm. 424, and note u.
  • TRIVIAL
    Trifling; inconsiderable; of small worth or importance. In equity, at demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter In dispute, aa being below the dignity of the court 4 BOUv. Inst no. 4237.
  • TRONAGE
    In English law. A customary duty or toll for weighing wool: so-called because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam. Fleta, lib. 2, c 12.
  • TRONATOR
    A weigher of wool. Cowell.
  • TROPHY MONEY
    Money formerly collected and raised in London, and the several counties of England, towards providing harness and maintenance for the mintt", etc.
  • TROVER
    In common law practice, the action of trover (or trover and conversion) Is a species of action on the case, and originally lay for the recovery of damages against a person who had found another's goods and wrongfully converted them to his own use. Subsequently the allegation of the loss More...
  • TROY WEIGHT
    A weight of twelve ounces to the pound, having its name from Troyes, a city in Anbe, France.
  • TRUCE
    In international law. A suspension or temporary cessation of hostilities by agreement between belligerent powers; an armistice. Wheat Int Law, 442, -Truce of God. In medieval law. A truce or suspension of arms promulgated by the ehurch, putting a stop to private hostilities at certain periods or during certain sacred More...
  • TRUCK ACT
    In English law. This name is given to the statute 1 A 2 Wm. IV. c. 37, passed to abolish what is commonly called the "truck system," under which employers were in the practice of paying the wages of their work people In goods, or of requiring them to purchase More...
  • TRUE
    Conformable to fact; correct; exact; actual; genuine; honest "In one sense, that only is true which is conformable to the actual state of things. In that sense, a statement is untrue which does not express things exactly as they are. But in another and broader sense, the word 'true' is More...
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