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  • TRINITY SITTINGS
    Sittings of the English court of appeal and of the high court of justice in London and Middlesex, commencing on the Tuesday after Whitsun week, and terminating on the 8th of August
  • TRINITY TERM
    One of the four terms of the English courts of common law, beginning on the 22d day of May, and ending on the 12th of June. 8 Steph. Comm. 562.
  • TRINIUM GELDUM
    In old European law. An extraordinary kind of composition for an offense, consisting of three times nine, or twenty-seven times the single geld or payment. Spelman.
  • TRINODA NEOESSITAS
    Lat In Saxon law. A threefold necessity or burden. A term used to denote the three things from contributing to the performance of which no lands were exempted, viz., pontis reparations (the repair of bridges,) arcis constructio, (the building of castles,) et expeditio contra hostcm, (military service against an enemy.) More...
  • 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.
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