Titulus
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
1.
The civil law and old law-Latin words for title {q. v.), as in the following extract from Lord Coke: Titulus est justa causa possidendi id quod nostrum est; dicitur a tuendo.
8 Coke, 153.
A title is the just right of possessing that which is our own; it is so called from tuendo, defending.
2.
Also, in old ecclesiastical law, titulus signified a church, in the sense of a building, an edifice devoted to religious uses.
TO.
The word " to " (also " from ") has not a precise, fixed, legal meaning, but may signify within or into; as where a railroad is chartered to run to a city desigter, is authorized to bring its road to a city, and acquire property witliin it, the right to enter the city is also conferred. Moses v. Pittsburgh, &c.
R. R. Co., 21 lU. 516.
But generally " to " (as well as "from") is a word of exclusion, unless the context clearly shows a different sense intended.
Bradley v. Rice, 13 Me. 198.
A boundary "on" a stream, or "by" a stream, or " to " a stream, includes the flats at least to low-water mark, and in many cases to the middle thread of the river. There may, however, be a distinction when the boundary is " to the bank; " that in such cases the boundary is or may be limited to the very bank, and may not extend into the stream, or the flats thereof.
3 Sumn. 178.