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The term “TAA-eligible individual” means an eligible TAA recipient (as defined in paragraph (2) of section 35(c)) and an eligible alternative TAA recipient (as defined in paragraph
The term “TAA-related election period” means, with respect to a TAA-related loss of coverage, the 60-day election period under this subsection which is a direct consequence of such
The term “TAA-related loss of coverage” means, with respect to an individual whose separation from employment gives rise to being an TAA-eligible individual, the loss of health ben
A short gown; a herald's coat; a sur coat.
One who wears a tabard or short govsm. The name is still used as the title of' certain bachelors of arts on the old foundation of Queen's College, Oxford. Enc. Lond. TABELLA (Lat.)
Lat In Roman law. A tablet. Used in voting, and in giving the verdict of juries; and, when written upon, commonly translated "ballot" The laws which introduced and regulated the mo
In Roman Law. An officer among the Romans, who reduced to writing, and into proper form, agreements, contracts, wills, and other instruments, and witnessed their execution. The ter
A tavern.
A tavern.
Lat In the civil law. A shop-keeper. Dig. 14, 3, 5, 7. In old English law. A taverner or tavern-keeper. Fleta, lib, 2, c. 12, § 17.
In medical jurisprudence. This is another name for locomotor ataxia. Tabetic dementia is a form of mental derangement or insanity complicated with tabes dorsalis, which generally p
A synopsis in whi Ch. many particulars are brought together in a general view. See Life Tables. As to the Law of the Twelve Tables, see Code.
In Louisiana. A list of creditors of an insolvent estate, stating what each is entitled to. 4 Mart. (La.; N. S.) 535. TABULA IN NAUFRAGIO (Lat. a plank in a wreck). In English law.
Fr. In old French law. Table of Marble; a principal seat of the admiralty, so called. These Tables de Marbre are frequently mentioned in the Ordonnance of the Marine. Burrill
An alphabetical list of the adjudged cases cited, referred to, or digested in a legal text-book, volume of reports, or digest, with references to the sections, pages, or paragraphs
Rents paid to bishops and other ecclesiastic Sj appropriated to their table or housekeeping. Jacob.
For purposes of this section, the term “tables” includes formulas.
Lat. In Roman law. Tables. Writings of any kind used as evidences of a transaction. Brissonius. —Tabulae nnptiales. In the civil law. A written record of a marriage; or the agreeme
Lat. In the civll law. A table or tablet; a thin sheet of wood, which, when covered with wax, was used for writing.
In civil law. Contracts and written instruments of all kinds, especially wills. So called because originally written on tablets and with wax. Calv. Lex.
In the civil law. A written record of a marriage; or the agreement as to the dos.
Lat A plank in a shipwreck. This phrase is used metaphorically to designate the power subsisting in a third mortgagee, who took without notice of the second mortgage, to acquire th
In the civil law. A notary.
Free from payments, etc.; e. g., "tac free de omnibus propriis porcis suis infra metas de C," i. e., paying nothing for his hogs running within that limit. Jacob. TACIT (from Lat.
- Tacitdefined inBallentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Anderson (1889)Abbott (1879)
Silent; implied.
In the civil law, a tacit acceptance of an inheritance takes place when some act is done by the heir which necessarily supposes his intention to accept and which he would have no r
These maritime liens, in the coasting business, and in the business upon the lakes and rivers, are greatly increasing; and, as they are tacit and secret, are not to be encouraged,
Certain tacit matters are regarded as expressed.
Tacitly.
One implied by law to secure a creditor.
A law which derives its authority from the common consent of the people without any legislative enactment. 1 Bouv. Inst. 120.
The landlord shall have a tacit lien upon such of the tenant's personal chattels upon the premises as are subject to execution for debt, to commence with the tenancy and continue f
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The security is called a tacit mortgage, which is nothing more than a regulation by law, to assure the property of the minor in the custody of the parent against loss.
I. Silent; not speaking; not expressed in words; im^^lied; tacit Tacita qusedam habentur pro expressis: some tacit tiling are regarded as expressed.
In Scotch law. The tacit or implied renewal of a lease when the landlord, instead of warning a tenant, has allowed him to continue without making a new agreement. Bell, Diet. "Relo
See "Tacit Relocation." TACITA QUAEDAM HABENTUR PRO expressis. Certain things, though unexpressed, are considered as expressed. 8 Coke, 40. TACITE (Lat.) Silently; Impliedly; tacit
In Scotch law, this significa laches in not prosecuting a legal claim or in acquiescing in an adverse one. Mozley A Whitley.
In Scotch law. A contract of location by which the use of land or any other immovable subject is let to the lessee or tacksman for a certain yearly rent, either in money, the fruit
V. To annex some junior lien to a first lien, thereby acquiring priority over an intermediate one. Tacking: a doctrine of equity jurisprudence, allowing the owner of a first and th
Rent reserved upon a lease.
Of Securities. The union of securities given at different times, so as to prevent any intermediate purchaser's claiming title to redeem or otherwise discharge one lien, which is pr
under the 15th section of the act of 1841, the possession need not be continued by the same person, and that, consequently, the instruction of the district court, in this particula
In English law. The uniting of securities given at different times, so as to prevent any intermediate purchaser or incumbrancer from claiming a title to redeem or otherwise dischar
In Scotch law. A tenant. TACTIS SACROSANCTIS (Law Lat.) In old English law. Touching the holy (evangelists). Pleta, lib. 3, c. 16, § 21. "A bishop may swear visis evangeliis (looki
In old records. A kind of customary payment by a tenant Cowell. —Tac free. In old records. Free from the common duty or imposition of tac. Cowell.
Lat. In old English law. Touching the holy evangelists. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 16, § 21. "A bishop may swear visis evangeliis, [looking at the Gospels,] and not tactis, and it is good e
I. I In old English law. Touching the holy (evangelists). Tacto per se sancto Eraugello, 1. 1 Having personally touched the holy Gospel.
Lat. Having personally touched the holy Gospel. Cro. Elis. 105. The description of a corporal oath.
8 Coke, 40. Things unexpressed are sometimes considered as expressed.
A form of mental derangement or insanity complicated with "tabes dorsalis" or locomotor ataxia, which generally precedes, or sometimes follows, the mental attack. As to insanity re
The term “TAICNAR Program” means the Technical Assistance Improvement and Compliance Needs Assessment and Remediation Program established pursuant to subsection (e).
- Taildefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Black's (1891)Anderson (1889)Abbott (1879)
See "Estates." TAIL AFTER POSSIBILITY OF ISSUE extinct The estate of a surviving tenant in special tail after the death, without surviving issue, of the person from whose body the
Limited; abridged; reduced.
See Estate-tail after , etc.
A species of estate tail which arises where one is tenant in special tail, and a person from whose body the issue was to spring dies without issue, or, having left issue, that issu
See Tallage. TAILLE (Fr.). The equivalent of the the generic term for an Indirect tax. See Tallage.
An estate tail limited to the female heirs of the donee.
See Estate-tail female .
An estate tall granted to one and the heirs of his body in general. 2 Bl. Comm. 113.
The term “tailings” means the remaining portion of a metal-bearing ore after some or all of such metal, such as uranium, has been extracted.
Fr. In old French law. A tax or assessment levied by the king, or by any great lord, upon his subjecte, usually taking the form of an imposition upon the owners of real estate. Bra
tailer, tayler, I. fr. In old English law. To cut; to limit; io tax; to bar; to declaf'e.
An estate tall limited to the male heirs of the donee.
An estate tail granted to one and certain only of the heirs of his body, as those to be begotten on his then wife. 2 Bl. Comm. 113. TAILLE (French). In Old Frencli Law. A tax or as
- Tails res, vel tale rectum, quæ vel quod non est in bomine adtnnc super-stite sed tantummodo est et consistit in consideratione et intelligentia legis, et quod alii dixerunt talem rem vel tale rectum fore In nubibusdefined inBlack's (1910)
Such a thing or such a right as is not vested in a person then llving, but merely exists in the consideration and contemplation of law [Is said to be In abeyance,] and others have
- Tailziedefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Stimson (1881)Abbott (1879)
In the Scotch law, an arbitrary line of succession laid down by a proprietor, in substitution of a legal line of succession. A deed of tailzie creates a Scotch entail by which, unt
crim. law, is &ommitted by unlawfully and violently taking or keeping possession of lands and tenements with menaces, force and arms, and without the authority of law. Com. Dig. h.
Freeholders.
Attainder (q. v.)
We find the captured property in the hands of the offender, and hold it to be immaterial through what circuity of changes it has come back to him. It is not for him to claim a righ
the term “Taiwan” includes, as the context may require, the islands of Taiwan and the Pescadores, the people on those islands, corporations and other entities and associations crea
- takedefined inCase LawU.S. CodeCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Anderson (1889)
to harass, "harm, "pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct." § 1532(19) (emphasis added).
The deprivation of the former owner rather than the accretion of a right or interest to the sovereign constitutes the taking. Governmental action short of acquisition of title or o
If a ship has contracted guilt by a breach of blockade, the offence is not discharged until the end of the voyage. The penalty never travels on with the vessel further than to the
“takeout” means that portion of a wager which is deducted from or not included in the parimutuel pool, and which is distributed to persons other than those placing wagers;
the offer to acquire or the acquisition of any equity security of a target company, pursuant to a tender offer or request or invitation for tenders, if after the acquisition thereo
One who takes or acquires; particularly, one who takes an estate by devise. When an estate is granted subject to a remainder or executory devise, the devisee of the immediate inter
The term “take reduction plan” means a plan developed under section 1387 of this title .
The term “take reduction team” means a team established under section 1387 of this title .
Officially to receive the evidence of sworn witnesses.
An indorser or acceptor is said to take up, or retire, a bill when he discharges his liability upon it. In such a case, the indorser would hold the instrument with all his remedies
where real estate is actually invaded by superinduced additions of water, earth, sand, or other material, or by having any artificial structure placed on it, so as to effectually d
taking an appeal is a matter of right, and is something which the party as distinguished from court may do. When the court has rendered its judgment 'either party may appeal.' That
Flights over private land are not a taking, unless they are so low and so frequent as to be a direct and immediate interference with the enjoyment and use of the land. It is the ch
Navy order N-4128 did not purport to be an offer to purchase; it commanded delivery of specified merchandise. Plaintiff's consent was not sought; it was not consulted as to quantit
the destruction of privately owned land by flooding is 'a taking' to the extent of the destruction caused
one person's property may not be taken for the benefit of another private person without a justifying public purpose, even though compensation be paid
it did not make the taking any less a taking for public use by its logically subsequent direction that the power should be delivered to private companies for work deemed more usefu
to require abolition of an established grade crossing and the outlay of money necessary to construct an overhead would take the railway's property in a very real sense
The application thus given to the statute deprives plaintiff of property for the private use and benefit of defendant, and is a taking of property without due process of law, forbi
The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution says 'nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.' This is a tacit recognition of a preexisting power to
One which is filed when the interest of the plaintiff or defendant, suing or defending, wholly determines, and the same property becomes vested in another person not claiming under
- Taledefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Anderson (1889)Stimson (1881)Bouvier (1839)
In English law. The ancient name of the declaration or count. 3 Bl. Comm. 293. TALES (Lat. talis, such, like). In practice. A number of jurors added to a deficient panel sufl Bcien
- Talesdefined inBallentine's (1916)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Anderson (1889)Stimson (1881)Abbott (1879)
Such; sovnany; a supply of such men as are summoned on the first panel in order to make up a deficiency. See 106 N. C. 576, 19 Am. St. Rep. 547, 11 S. E. 665.
As many jurors as the panel may require.
A juror added to supply a deficiency in a panel. See 64 Miss. 738, 2 South. 360.
a petit juror.
(Civil Law) A punishment in kind, on the principle, “An eye for an eye,” etc.