Third

Following next after the second; also, with reference to any legal instrument or transaction or judicial proceeding, any outsider or person not a party to the affair nor immediately concerned in it.

— Third opposition. In Louisiana, when an execution is Levied on property which does' not belong to the defendant, but to an outsider, the remedy, of the owner is by an intervention calied a "third opposition," in which, on his giving security, an injunction or prohibition may be granted to stop the sale. See New Orleans v. Louisiana Const. Co., 129 U. S. 45, 9 Sup. Ct. 223. 32 L. Ed. 607.

— Third parties. See Party.

— Third penny. A portion (one-third) of the amount of all fines and other profits of the county court, which was reserved for the earl, in the early days when the jurisdiction of those courts was extensive, the remainder going to the king.

— Third possessor. In Louisiana, a person who buys mortgaged property, but without assuming the payment of the mortgage. Thompson v. Levy, 50 La. Ann. 751, 23 South. 913.