Legal Definition and Related Resources of Term

A fixed period , a prescribed duration. In relation to a lease , the word not only signifies the duration of the lease but also the estate granted or interested in the tenement . Also, it is the time prescribed by law during which a court may be in session . The time during which anything lasts; duration; tenure . Also that portion of an agreement which relates to a particular matter. U.C.C. §1-201.

In Construction. Word; expression; speech. Terms are words or characters by which we announce our sentiments, and make known to others things with which we are acquainted. These must be properly construed or interpreted in order to under stand the parties using them. In Contracts. The space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation. These are express terms, resulting from the positive stipulations of the agreement, as, where one undertakes to pay a certain sum on a certain day, and also terms which tacitly result from the nature of the things which are the object of the engagement, or from the place where the act is agreed to be done. For instance, if a builder engage to construct a house for me, I must allow a reasonable time for fulfilling his engagement. 1 Wis. 314. In Estates. The limitation of an estate; as, a term for years, for life, and the like. The word “term” does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate, also, and interest that passes by that lease, and therefore the term may expire during the continuance of the time; as, by surrender, forfeiture, and the like. 2 Bl. Comm. 145; 8 Pick. (Mass.) 339. Of Court. The space of time during which a court holds a session. The stated periods during which courts sit for the dispatch of business. Sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly, period, according to the constitution of the court.

(Duration), noun

• age
• course
• era
• incumbency
• interval
• lifetime
• period
• reign
• season
• session
• span
• spatium temporis
• spell
• stage
• tenancy
• tenure
• time
• Associated Concepts: term for years
• term insurance
• term of a lease
• term of confinement
• term of court
• term of officeFOREIGN phrases: Terminus annorum certus debet esse et determinatus
• A term of years ought to be certain and determinate

(Expression), noun

• appellation
• appellative
• cognomen
• denomination
• designation
• epithet
• heading
• idiom
• locution
• name
• phrase
• title
• verbalism
• verbum
• vocable
• vocabulum
• word
• Associated Concepts: definition of terms

(Provision), noun

• agreement
• arrangement
• article of agreement
• bargain
• clause
• condicio
• condition
• covenant
• item
• lex
• limitation
• particular
• point
• proviso
• qualification
• specification
• stipulation
• understanding Associated Concepts: terms and conditions of a contract
• terms of a policy
• terms of payment
• terms of sale

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Term in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of term.

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Term

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c. 1200, terme “limit in time, set or appointed period,” from Old French terme “limit of time or place, date, appointed time, duration” (11c.), from Latin terminus “end, boundary line,” in Medieval Latin “expression, d
efinition,” related to termen “boundary, end” (see terminus). Old English had termen “term, end,” from Latin. Sense of “period of time during which something happens” first recorded c. 1300, especially of a school or law court session (mid-15c.). The meaning “word or phrase used in a limited or precise sense” is first recorded late 14c., from Medieval Latin use of terminus to render Greek horos “boundary,” employed in mathematics and logic. Hence in terms of “in the language or phraseology peculiar to.” Meaning “completion of the period of pregnancy” is from 1844. Term-paper in U.S. educational sense is recorded from 1931.

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See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• term in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• term in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

Term Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Term in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: Period of time during which the conditions of a CONTRACT will be carried out.

Concept of Term in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Term: A period of time, such as the term of a lease.

Concept of Term in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Term: A period of time, such as the term of a lease.

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