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  • TURNED TO A RIGHT
    This phrase means that a person whose estate is divested by usurpation cannot expel the possessor by mere entry, but must have recourse to an action, either possessory or droitural. Mos-ley A Whitley.
  • TURNKEY
    A person, under the superintendence of a jailer, who has the charge of the keys of the prison, for the purpose of opening and fastening the doors.
  • TURNPIKE
    A gate set across a road, to stop travelers and carriages until toll Is paid for the privilege of passage thereon. -----Turnpike roads. These are roads on which parties have by law a right te erect gates and ban, for the purpose of taking toll, and of refusing the permission More...
  • TURPIS
    Lat In the civil law. Base; mean; vile; disgraceful; Infamous; unlawful. Applied both to things and persons. Calvin. ------Tarpis eansa. A base cause; a vile or Immoral consideration: a consideration which, on account of its immorality, is not allowed by law to be sufficient either to support a contract or More...
  • TURPITUDE
    Everything done contrary to justice, honesty, modesty, or good morals is said to be done with turpitude.
  • TURPITUDO
    Lat Baseness; infamy; Immorality; turpitude. Tnta est enstodia qnss sibimet ereditnr. Hob. 840. That guardianship is secure which is intrusted to itself alone.
  • TUTELA
    Lat In the civil law. Tutelage ; that species of guardianship which continued to the age of puberty; the guardian being called "tutor" and the ward, "pupillus." 1 Dom. Civil Law, b. 2, tit. 1, p. 260. -----Tutela legitime. Legal tutelage; tutelage created by act of law, as where none More...
  • TUTELAE ACTIO
    Lat. In the civil law. An action of tutelage; an action which lay for a ward or pupil, on the termination of tutelage, against the tutor or guardian, to compel an account Calvin.
  • TUTELAGE
    Guardianship; state of being under a guardian.
  • TUTELAM REDDERE
    Lat In the civil law. To render an account of tutelage. Calvin. Tutelam reposcere, to demand an account of tutelage.
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