TRAVAIL. The act of child-bearing.2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. 5 Pick...
TRANSLATION. The copy made in one language of what has been written, or spoken in another.2. In pleading, when a libel or an agreement, written in a f...
TRANSFEREE. He to whom a transfer is made.TRANSFERENCE, Scotch law. The name of an action by which a suit, which was pending at the time the parties d...
TRANSACTION, contracts, civil law. An agreement between two or more persons, who for the purpose of preventing or putting an end to a law-suit, adjust...
TRADITION, contracts, civil law. The act by which a thing is delivered by one or more persons to one or more others.2. In sales it is the delivery of ...
TRADER. One who makes it his business to buy merchandise or goods and chattels, and to sell the same for the purpose of making a profit. The quantum o...
TRADE MARKS. Signs, writings or tickets put upon manufactured goods, to distinguish them from others.2. It seems at one time to have been thought that...
TOUR D'ECHELLE, French law. Tour d'echelle is a right which the owner of an estate has of placing ladders on his neighbor's property to fa...
TOTAL. Complete; containing the whole; as the total amount of an account is all the items of such account added together; total incapacity, is an abso...
TOOK AND CARRIED AWAY, pleadings. In an indictment for simple larceny, the words "feloniously took and carried away" the goods stolen, are i...