Legal Dictionary

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  • Tythe

    Tithe or tenth part.

  • Unchastity

    The condition of being not chaste. See Chaste.

  • Unanimous

    Being of one mind, agreeing in opinion, design or determination or having agreement and consent of all.

  • True Copy

    A copy that is true in all essential particulars so that no-one can be mislead as to the effect of the instrument. A true copy and a duplicate are not synonymous, since a duplicate means double of the original but a true copy may vary more or less from the original.

  • Tribal Land

    Lands within the boundaries of an Indian reservation held in trust by the federal government for the Indian tribe as a community.

  • Ultimate Purchaser

    The term as occurring in statutes aimed at the protection of consuming public means the ultimate consumer to whom a product is sold for his use or consumption. Thus, with respect to any new automobile, the first person, other than a dealer purchasing in his capacity as a dealer, who in good […]

  • Treat

    Deal with or operate on a disease or infection on part of the body of a person, in order to relieve or cure; to subject to chemical or physical action.

  • Trust Fund Doctrine

    A rule of equity by which all assets of an insolvent corporation pass to a receiver to be equitably distributed to innocent creditors, these assets are a trust fund for the benefit of creditors.

  • Treacher, Treachour

    A traitor.

  • Trading Stamps

    A coupon or a memorandum in writing given by a merchant to a cash paying customer, which memorandum or coupon expresses in money value a small percentage of the price of goods bought and paid for by the customer entitling the holder thereof, after generally accumulating a number of such […]

  • Toll-traverse

    A toll payable for every beast driven across another man’s land.

  • Tonnage-rent

    Where under a mine lease, the rent is calculable with reference to the number of tons of minerals extracted from the demised land, it is called tonnage rent.

  • Travellers Check

    A negotiable instrument, being one of a set, purchased from a bank or a financial institution, constituting a complete purchase and sale of credit, and having the characteristics of a cashier’s check where issued by a bank and constituting a foreign bill of exchange. See Berrv v United […]

  • Total Disability

    In the occupational sense, the term denotes inability to perform one’s trade or inability to perform reasonably gainful employment. For purposes of disability insurance, the term does not mean a state of absolute helplessness or inability to perform any task relating to one’s employment […]

  • Therefore

    For that thing; for it or them.