In Terminis Terminantibus

In terms of determination; exactly in point 11 Go. 40 b. In express or determinate terms. 1 Leon. 93. IN TERROREM (Lat.). By way of threat, terror, or warhing. For example, when a legacy is given to a person upon condition not to dispute the validity or the dispositions in wills and testaments, the conditions are not, in general, obligatory, but only in terrorem: if, therefore, there exist prol^abilis causa litiganda, the nonobservance of the conditions will not be a forfeiture. 1 Hill, Abr. 263; 3 P. Wms. 344; 1 Atk. 404. But when the acquiescence of the legatee appears to be a material Ingredient in the gift, the bequest is only so long as the legatee shall refrain from disturbing the will; 2 P. Wms. 62; 2 Ventr. 352. See Duress. essary In Indictments for riots. 4 C. & P. 373. Lord Holt has given a distinction between those indictments in which the words in terrorem populi are essential, and those wherein they may be omitted. He says that, in indictments for that species of riots which consists in going about armed, etc., without committing any act, the words are necessary, because the offence consists in terrifying the public; but in those riots in which an unlawful act is committed, the words are useless; 11 Mod. 116; Com. v. Runnels, 10 Mass. 618, 6 Am. Dec. 148.

In terms of determination; exacily in point. 11 Coke, 405. In express or determinate SE terms. 1 Leon. 93, EE