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  • 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.
  • 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...
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