Turnpike Road
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A road or highway over which the public have the right to travel upon payment of toll, and on which the parties entitled to such toll have the right to erect gates and bars to insure its payment.
6 Mees. & W. 428; 1 Ry. Cas. 665; 22 Eng. Law & Eq. 113; 16 Pick. (Mass.) 175; 8 Barb. (N. Y.) 492.
TURPIS CAUSA (Lat.) A base or vile consideration, forbidden by law, which makes the contract void; as, a contract the consideration of which is the future illegal cohabitation of the obligee with the obligor. TURPIS EST PARS QUAE NON CONVEnit cum sue toto. That part is bad which accords not with its whole.
Plowd. 161.
TURPITUDE (Lat. turpitudo, from tur- 'pis, base). Everything done contrary to justice, honesty, modesty, or good morals is said to be done with turpitude. TURPITUDO (Lat.) Turpitude.