Terminus

1.

Bound, limit, end — in space or time.

Whence co-terminous

Terminus a quo. The end from which; the starting point; the beginning.

Termines ad quern

The end to which; the point of ending; termination. I Morgan's Louisiana & Texas R. &c.

Co. v. Texas Central R. Co., 32 F. R. S30 (1887), cases, Harlan, J. a Exp. Lange, 18 Wall. 193 (1873), cases, Clifford, J. • Newhall v. Sanger, 92 U. S. 7f.6 (1875), cases. • Bronson v. Schulten, 104 U. S. 415 (1881), cases, Miller, J.; Phillips V. Negley, 117 id.

672-75 (1886), cases. •R. S. § 746. • Speer v. Crawford, 8 Mete. *313 (Ky., 1860); People V Brundage, 78 N. T. 407 (1879), Church, C. J. ■A-Pply, respectively, to the places of beginning and ending of ways, of risks in marine insurance, to transfers of title, etc' See At; From; To. 2. An estate for years: since its existence is limited, begins and ends.

Interesse termini

Interest in (of) a term. Describes a right to the possession of an estate for years at a future time. A bare lease does not vest an estate in the lessee. It merely gives him a right of entry, which is his interest in the term, or interesse termini. When he has actually entered, and thereby accepted the grant, the estate is vested in him, and he is possessed not properly of the land but of the term of years: the possession or seisin of the land still remaining in him who has the freehold.^ See Term, 3.

3.

Ending: word, expression, term.

Ex vi termini

From the force of the word; from the meaning vrhich inheres in the expression. Plural, ex vi terminorum. Deed, bond, obligation, and like yords import, ex vi termini (or ex vi terminorum), sealed instruments."