Term

The limitation of an estate: as a term for years, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the term 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 Bla. Com. 145; Farnum v. Platt, 8 Pick. (Mass.) 339, 19 Am. Dec. 330.

In Practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session. Sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to the constitution of the court The whole term is considered as but one day: so that the judges may at any time during the term revise their judgments. In the computation of the term, all adjournments are to be included; Leib v. Com., 9 Watts (Pa.) 200. Courts are presumed to know judicially when their terms are required to be held by public law; Foster v. Frost, 35 N. C. 427. A term of the circuit court may extend from the beginning of one term to the opening of the succeeding statutory term, and the beginning of another term in another district of the same circuit does not necessarily end the term of the first court; East Tennessee I. & C. Co. v. Wiggin, 68 Fed. 446, 15 C. C. A. 510, 37 U. S. App. 129. In England Hilary term is from January 12 to April 8; Easter, from April 21 to May the law terms before 1875, see 1 Reeves, H. E. L. 232; 3 Holdsw.

H. E. L. 510.