Law Dictionary

a Department employee who is appointed by the Secretary.

6 1/4 acres which lie in tract 'A' and 3 3/4 acres in tract 'B', these tracts being in separate ownership.

the doing of an act with a specific intent to deprive a person of a federal right.

An inn of chancery. See "Inns of Chancery."

A demonstrative word which particularizes the noun before which it stands and limits its meaning more definitely and particularly than the indefinite article "a". 261 111. 417.

The term “the 1934 Act” means the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.).

An article which particularizes the subject spoken of. “Grammatical niceties should not be resorted to without necessity; but it would be extending liberality to an unwarrantable l

Such a plea is) one which shows some ground for not proceeding in the suit at the _ present period, and prays that the pleading may be stayed, until that ground be removed. ‘The nu

Pleas of this kind are pleaded when the action is misconceived, or was prematurely commenced before the cause of action arose; or that there is another action depending for the sam

the term “The Agreement” or “Agreement” means the agreement entitled “Terms and Conditions Governing Legislative Land Consolidation and Exchange between NANA Regional Corporation,

For purposes of subclause (I), the term “the amount applicable to the advance” means an amount which fully reflects that percentage of the funds saved by the telephone bank as a re

For purposes of applying tables or procedures prescribed under paragraph (1), the term "the amount of wages" means the amount by which the wages exceed the taxpayer's wit

The term "the Annex" means Annex 300–B of the North American Free Trade Agreement entered into between the United States, Mexico, and Canada on December 17, 1992. / The t

In this subchapter, the term “the appropriate committees of Congress” means the Committees on Foreign Relations, Armed Services, and Appropriations of the Senate and the Committees

The term “the arts” includes, but is not limited to, music (instrumental and vocal), dance, drama, folk art, creative writing, architecture and allied fields, painting, sculpture,

Any edifice used for the purpose of dramatic or operatic or other representations, plays or performances, for admission to which entrance-money is received, not including halls ren

The term “theater component commander” means, with respect to any of the combatant commands, an officer of any of the armed forces who (A) is commander of all forces of that armed

As used in this subsection, the term “theatrical employee” means a nonappropriated fund employee of the Board, who is engaged in a box office, performing, or theatrical trade that

theatrical productions need not always be performed in buildings or even on a defined area and as a conventional stage. Nor need they be performed by professional actors or be heav

practice, is a writ which lies where a party sues for damages for any wrong or cause of complaint to which covenant or trespass will not apply. See 3 Woodd. 167; Steph. Pl. 15. Thi

A court of arbitrators, created for the convenience of merchants in the city of New York, by act of the legislature of New York. It decides disputes between members of the chamber

A wrib of entry sine assensw capitiult lies where an abbot, prior, or such as hath covent or common seal, alions lands or tenements of the right of his church, without the assent o

“The Community” means the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM).

The terms “national bank” and “national banking association” used in this chapter shall be held to be synonymous and interchangeable. The term “member bank” shall be held to mean a

“the court” means the court having bankruptcy jurisdiction over the carrier subject to liquidation; and

Certain counsel, not less than six in number, appointed by the lord chanceclior, for the purpose of assisting the court of chancery, or any jildge thereof, with their opinion in ma

In English law. (So called because its original jurisdiction was to determine controversies between subject and subject.) One of the three superior courts of common law at Westmins

The district of columbia and its environs.—The term “the District of Columbia and its environs” means those lands and properties administered by the National Park Service and the G

Such pleas are for some apparent uncertainty, repugnancy, or want of form; variance from the record, specialty, &c. mentioned therein, or misnomer of the plaintiff or defendant. La

A popular term for larceny, adopted in lieu of the latter term by the Penal Code of Texas. — — In Scotch Law. The secret and felonious abstraction of the property of another for sa

The act of receiving a man's goods from the thief, after they had been stolen by him, with the intent that he shall escape punishment. This is an offense punishable at common law b

3 Inst 134. Theft-bote is the paying money to have goods stolen returned, without having any respect for the court of the king.

For purposes of this section, the term “theft prevention decal or device” means a decal or other device designed in accordance with a uniform design for such devices developed purs

either a military judge and at least five members, or the judge alone if the accused so requests.

A tenant in capite. See Tenant in capite .

A kind of tenure In Northumbria in the 13th century and beyond, of which little is known. 2 Holdsw. Hist. E. L. 132. THEL0NMANNUS~. The tollman or officer who receives toll. Cowell

As used in this section, “The Golden Eagle Insignia” means the words “The Golden Eagle” and the representation of an American Golden Eagle (colored gold) and a family group (colore

Or "The Body of Laws of the province of Pennsylvania and Territories thereunto belonging, Past at an Assembly held at Chester, alias Upland, the 7th day of the tenth month, called

roads of Illinois corporations, as well as roads of corporations of other states, and the power conferred on corporations of Illinois to make contracts 'for leasing' such roads inc

In English law. A court which had jurisdiction — of all cases of treason, misprisiun of treason, murder, manslaughter, bloodshed, and other malicious strikings whereby blood is she

In Saxon law. A noble; generally a prince of the blood.

specified impairments acknowledged by the Secretary to be of sufficient severity to preclude gainful employment.

See Accumulation. ^ THEN". Aa an adverb of time, means "at that time," referring to a time specified, past or future. It has no power of itself to fix a time; it refers to time alr

Part II of the Year-Book, being the cases in 5 Edward IV.

A writ that formerly lay for him that had any part of the king's demesne in fee-farm, to recover reasonable toll of the king's tenants there, if his demesne had been accustomed to

An abolished writ for citizens or burgesses to assert their right to exemption from toll. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 226.

The toll-man or officer who receives toll. Cowell.

The highest judicial officer of the king. Chance-medley. A violent but unpremeditated affray; a killing in self-defense upon a sudden, unpremeditated attack.

An English statute cumulation beyond a period of twenty-one years from the death of the testator. It was so called because its necessity and passage were suggested by the curious w

packets of letters made up with post-bills, and directed to certain post-offices for distribution or delivery; and whether these be conveyed in a bag or out of it, they are equally

An instrument used by mariners to point out the course of a ship at sca. It consists of a magnetized steel bar called the "needle," attached to the under side of a card, upon which

The power of jurisdiction over naifs or villeins and their suits, off-spring, lands, goods, and chattels. Co. Litt. 116 a.

A duty or acknowledgment paid by inferior tenants in respect of theme. Cowell.

In the grammatical sense is an adverb of time. In such case the context should plainly show that it was so used before effect is thus given to it. 233 Pa. St. 35; Ann. Cas. 1913B 3

Refers to the time and place last specified, unless some phrase is used in connection therewith which shows that a different reference was intended. 263 111. 476, 477; 138 111. 556

In surveying, and in description of land by courses and distances, this word preceding each course given, imports that the following course is continuous with the one before it Fla

sax. In Saxon law. risdiction open only to the king's thegns or in the time of Edward the Confessor, came Regis.

A species of government which claims to be immediately directed by God. La religion, qui, dans I'antiquite, s'associa souvent au despotisme, pour regner par son bras ou a son ombra

In Saxon law. A husbandman or inferior tenant; an under-thane. Cowell.

with the law of the ionum: the law of the Frisians, the eighth century. Lex

See "Code."

In Saxon law. Offenders who joined in a body of seven to commit depredations. Wharton.

The main criminal court of England.

Toll.

two or more unions claim the right to perform a job which existed at the time their collective bargaining contracts with the employer were made.

The theory of the law, which supposes the acceptor to have funds of the drawer in his hands, is a theory mainly intended for the security of third persons, and leaves the transacti

where the parties, with the assent of the court, unite in trying a case on the theory that a particular matter is within the issues, that theory cannot be rejected when the case co

THEOWMEN, THEWS. Slaves, captives, or bondmen, Spelm. Feuds. They were the slaves of the old Saxon times. Vinogradoff, Engl. Soc. 466.

In feudal law. Slaves, captives, or bondmen. Spel. Feuds, c. 5.

the description is such that the officer with a search warrant can with reasonable effort ascertain and identify the place intended.

A court of criminal jurisdic- Its sessions are, In general, held at the same time and by the same judges as the court of oyer and terminer and general gaol delivery.

For purposes of subclause (I), the term “the period applicable to the advance” means the period beginning on the issue date described in subclause (I) and ending on the earlier of

The term “the plan” means the comprehensive management plan developed for the conservation area, dated August 30, 1985, together with such revisions thereto as may be required in o

the employment of any means other than the use of drugs for the measurement of the powers or range of human vision, or the determination of the accommodative and refractive states

its mode of operation, or that peculiar combination of devices which distinguish it from other machines.

The terms “Montreal Protocol” and “the Protocol” mean the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of th

This officer, so constituted by letters patent, has preaudience over the bar after the attorney and solicitor general and queen's advocate. 3 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 274, note.

For purposes of this subsection, the term “therapeutic category” means a therapeutic category identified in the list developed by the United States Pharmacopeia pursuant to section

The treatment of disease. See 55 Minn. 20, 56 N. W. 256.

only after the last act recited has been done.

By that; by that means; in consequence of that; through the agency

in causes other than those of which the district courts generally had cognisance, under the 9th section of the act.

the word ' property ' as used, and can only be satisfied by an assignment of all the property of the debtor.

The description of a voyage to a port on the north side of Cuba, "with the liberty of a second port thereon," was held to mean that the second port was to be on the side already sp

The name given, par excellence, to Lord Coke's Reports, from 14 Eliz. to 13 Jan. L, which are cited as "Rep." or "Coke." They are divided into thirteen parts, and the modern editio

An adverb signifying immediately, at once, without delay, and it is in that sense that it would ordinarily be understood. 23 111. App. 618.

As used in the reform act; 2 W. IV. c. 45; referring to house, etc., the clause that any land occupied therewith, has reference to time and not to locality. 22

The term “thermal efficiency of pool heaters” means a measure of the heat in the water delivered at the heater outlet divided by the heat input of the pool heater as measured under

The term “thermal energy source” means— (A) a natural source of cooling or heating from lake or ocean water; and (B) recovery of useful energy that would otherwise be wasted from o

Subject to clause (ii), for purposes of this paragraph, the term “thermal energy storage property” means property comprising a system which— (I) is directly connected to a heating,

“thermal plume” means the area of the ocean in which a significant difference in temperature, as defined in regulations by the Administrator, occurs as a result of the operation of

Treasurer. 8 State Tr. 691.

or THESAURIUM. The treasury; a treasure. THESAURUS ABSCONDITU8. Treasure hidden, or buried. Spelman.

In old English law. Treasure hidden or buried. Spelman.

et non domino libertatis, nisi sit per verba speciaiia. A treasure belongs to the king, and not to the lord of a liberty, unless it be through special words. Fitz. Coron. 281.

Fitzh. Coron. 281. A treasure belongs to the king, and not to the lord of a liberty, unless it be through special words.

3 Inst. 132. Treasure-trove is an ancient hiding of money, etc., of which no recollection exists, so that it now has no owner.

Treasure trove (q. v.) THESAURUS INVENTUS EST VETUS dispositio pecuniae, etc., cujus non extat mode miennoria, adeo ut jam dominum non habeat. Treasure trove is an ancient hiding o

nisi quando nemo scit qui abscondit thesaurum. Treasure does not belong to the king unless no one knows who hid it. 3 Inst. 132. THESAURUS REGIS EST VINCULUM pacis et beiiorum nerv

3 Inst. 132. Treasure does not belong to the king, uniess no one knows who hid it