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Godb. 293. The king's treasure is the bond of peace and the sinews of wav.

The treasury; a treasure. —Thesaurus absconditus. In old English law. Treasure hidden or buried. Spelman. —Thesaurus inventus. In old English law. Treasure found; treasure-trove. B

The term "the Secretary" means the Secretary of Homeland Security.

more than being allowed to confront the witnesses physically, more than the right to be tried by live testimony rather than affidavits.

The acts passed in 1819, for the pacification of England, are so called. They, in effect, prohibited the training of persons to arms; authorised general searches and seizure of arm

A law maker; a law giver.

See Contra for- mentary witness; 30 to be a juror; mam statutt. at 16a minor may devise one half

at least one alleged tortfeasor was engaging in activity substantially related to traditional maritime activity and such activity is claimed to have been a proximate cause of the i

an expenditure by a person — (A) expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate; and (B) that is not made in concert or cooperation with or at the re

a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article.

A tithing.

Stephen to the definition of Blackstone, that it takes no sufficient notice of the mvtuality of a contract, has apparently more weight; although, from Biackstone's own analysis of

“the Treaty” means the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. / the term “the Treaty” means the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, signed at Washingto

is an officer appointed by the president. He must be learned in the law, and be sworn or affirmed to a faithful execution of his office. His duties are ta prosecute and conduct all

There shall be appointed in each judicial district, a meet person, learned in the law, to act as attorney of the United States in such district, who shall be sworn or affirmed to t

government. Fle is the principal officer in the Department of State, (q. v.) He shall perform such duties as shall be enjoined on or entrusted to him by the president, agreeably to

For purposes of this section, “the United States Capitol Buildings and Grounds” shall include any building or facility acquired by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate for the use of

The ruie of evidence which obtains in the civil law, that the testimony of one witness is equivalent to the testimony of none. Wharton.

The 39 & 40 Geo. cumulations to a term of twenty-one death, v. Ferpetnity.

In English parhouse on the assembling of every new pariiament. When the house is in committes ou bills introduced by the government, or in committee of ways and means, or supply, o

Lat In~ the civil and old European law. An aunt

One who has been guilty of larceny or theft. 113 111. App. 450.

The term "thieves" is broad enough in law to cover both compound and simple larceny, and, in common parlance to include the latter; and when used in a policy of insurance upon the

res judtcata, (q- v-) is said of that which has been decided by a final judgment, by a tribunal of competent jurisdiction, from which there can fixed by law for the appealing has e

See Appendant .

A ohoae In action. Civ. Code Gal. § 958. See "Chose."

the whole subject-matter of a patent is an embodied conception outside of the patent itself, which, to the mind of those expert in the art, stands out in clear and distinct relief,

the term “thing of value” includes any payment, advance, funds, loan, service, or other consideration;

the invention or discovery, as held in "McClurg v. Kingsland," 1 How.

By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. Code du Canton de Berne, art. 332. Any object that may be possessed; all matters o

A thing in action is a right to recover money or other personal property by a judicial proceeding. Civ. Code Cal. { 953. See Chose in Action.

Goods, money, and all other movables which may attend the owner's person wherever he thinks proper to go. 2 Bl. Comm. 16. Things personal consist of goods, money, and all other mov

or REALTY. Such things as are permanent, fixed, and immovable, which cannot be carried out of their place, as lands and tenements. 2 Bl. Comm. 16. This definition has been objected

A thane or nobleman; knight or freeman. Cowell.

To believe. When a witness prefaces his testimony with "I think," he is to be taken as testifying to what he remembers. 288 111. 97; 43 S. W. Rep. (Tex.) 536.

Following next after the second; also, with reference to any legal instrument or transaction or judicial proceeding, any outsider or person not a party to the affair nor immediatel

An under-constable. Cowell.

In old English law. A constable. Lambard, Duty of Const. 6; 28 Hen. VII. c 10.

The practice of sweating a prisoner to force him to confess or to inform.

The third part of the corn growing on the land, due to the lord for a herlot on the death of his tenant, within the manor of Turfat, in Hereford. Blount.

By the laws of St. Edward the Confessor, if any man lay a third night in an inn, he was called a "third-night-awn-hinde," and his host was answerable for him if he committed any of

In Louisiana, when an execution is Levied on property which does' not belong to the defendant, but to an outsider, the remedy, of the owner is by an intervention calied a "third op

A term used to include all persons who are not parties to the contract, agreement, or instrument of writing by which their interest in the thing conveyed is sought to be affected.

The term “third party” means any of the following: (A) A Federal entity. (B) A State or political subdivision of a State. (C) An employer or an employer's insurance carrier. (D) An

In this subsection, the term "Third Party Administrator" has the meaning given such term in section 1703B of this title. / The term “Third Party Administrator” means an e

The term “third-party auditor” means a foreign government, agency of a foreign government, foreign cooperative, or any other third party, as the Secretary determines appropriate in

a check signed by a bank officer and paid through a third party.

Before a stranger can avail himself of the exceptional privilege of suing for a breach of an agreement, to which he is not a party, he must, at least, show that it was intended for

where a trust is created for the benefit of a third party, though without his knowledge at the time, he may affirm the trust, and enforce its execution.

The term “third party conformity assessment body” means a conformity assessment body that, except as provided in subparagraph (D), is not owned, managed, or controlled by the manuf

the term “third party debt” means any indebtedness for borrowed money, other than indebtedness owed to the Administration;

The term "third party explosives detection canine asset" means any explosives detection canine or handler not owned or employed, respectively, by the Transportation Secur

The term "third party investor" means a person who— (A) holds an interest in the partnership which does not constitute property held in connection with an applicable trad

The term “third-party logistics provider” means a person who solely receives, holds, or otherwise transports a consumer product in the ordinary course of business but who does not

The term "third party network transaction" means any transaction described in subsection (d)(3)(A)(iii) which is settled through a third party payment network.

The terms “third-party payer” and “insurance, medical service, or health plan” have the meaning given those terms in section 1095(h) of this title . / Definition of Third-Party Pay

The term “third party payment network” means any agreement or arrangement— (A) which involves the establishment of accounts with a central organization by a substantial number of p

The term "third-party provider" means a commercial entity (including a farmer cooperative, agriculture retailer, or other commercial entity (as defined by the Secretary))

The term “third-party recordkeeper” means— (i) any customhouse broker, unless such customhouse broker is the importer of record on an entry; (ii) any attorney; and (iii) any accoun

The term “third-party requester” means a person requesting ex parte reexamination under section 302 who is not the patent owner.

The term "third party seller" means any seller, independent of an online marketplace, who sells, offers to sell, or contracts to sell a consumer product in the United Sta

For purposes of this subchapter, the term “third party servicer” means any individual, any State, or any private, for-profit or nonprofit organization, which enters into a contract

The term “third party settlement organization” means the central organization which has the contractual obligation to make payment to participating payees of third party network tr

[T]he rule denying standing to raise another's rights, which is only a rule of practice

In old English law. Of the fines and other profits of the county courts (originallyj when those courts had fhe king, and a third part or penny, to the earl of the county. See "Dena

Any person other than one of the parties to the contract or his representatives. Pollock, Contr. 209. But it is difficult to give a very definite idea of third persons; for sometim

The term 'third persons,' as there used, does not embrace all persons other than the United States and the claimants, but only those who hold superior titles, such as will enable t

A vendee who does not assume to pay a subsisting mortgage on the land. See 50 La. Ann. 751, 23 South. 913.

Occurring in a will, construed to mean the same thing as dower. 2 Keyes (N. Y.) 558; 2 Abb. Pr. (N. S.; N. Y.) 418, affirming 46 Barb. (N, Y.) 609.

The term “third segment rate” means, with respect to any month, the single rate of interest which shall be determined by the Secretary for such month on the basis of the corporate

In Scotch law. A servitude by which lands are astricted or thirled to a particular mill, and the possessors bound to grind their grain there, for the pajrment of certain multures a

denouncing slavery and involuntary servitude, that is, a condition of enforced compulsory service of one to another does not in other matters protect the individual rights of perso

every wrong done to an individual by another, acting singly or in concert with others, operates pro tanto to abridge some of the freedom to which the individual is entitled. ... bu

See Articles of Religion.

that in federal courts counsel must be provided for defendants unable to employ counsel unless the right is competently and intelligently waived.

Except when used in this section, the term “this chapter” includes any regulation or order issued by the Secretary under the authority of this chapter. / Except when used in this s

The terms “United States” and “this country” mean the United States, the territories and possessions of the United States, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. / The terms “United

Fixing "this day six months," Or "three months," for the next stage of a bill, is one of the modes in which the house of lords and the house of commons reject bills of which they d

that a statute that creates a particular governmental program and that raises revenue to support that program, as opposed to a statute that raises revenue to support Government gen

not only the right to assistance of counsel at trial, "Gideon v. Wainwright," 372 U.S. 335 , 83 S.Ct. 792, 9 L.Ed.2d 799 (1963), but also to the assistance of counsel on appeal.

the federal habeas petitioner to "invok[e] one complete round of the State's established appellate review process." "O'Sullivan" v. "Boerckel," 526 U. S. 838, 845 (1999).

is the STB's jurisdiction over rail transportation within the United States.

the sentencing court to alert the jury to its constitutional role in capital sentencing.

that a prevailing plaintiff shall receive her costs "except in unusual circumstances," and we held last Term that a claim to an attorney's fee is not defeated if the plaintiff prev

laws pertaining exclusively to the District of Columbia, because the alternative construction would have defeated the congressional purpose "to effect a substantial relief to this

the entire § 2 of the Act, only subsections (a) and (b) dealing with seller liability involve discriminations in price.

that, under certain circumstance, States must draw "opportunity" districts in which minority groups form "effective majorit[ies]," LULAC, supra, at 426.

a causal connection 2 CHEVRON USA INC. v. PLAQUEMINES PARISH JACKSON, J., concurring in judgment between the charged conduct and asserted official author- ity." Willingham v. Morga

other provisions that use the defined terms, for example a provision that forbids "discriminat[ing] against a qualified individual with a disability because of the disability." §12

It was a custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester,- that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permit them to g:raze or take but a thistle, he shall pay a halfpenny

1. It is an unlawful taking a woman, or an heir in ward. 2. It is sometimes used synonymousty with rape.

In Scots law. A service by which the bound to carry his grain to a certain mill to duty therefor called a multure.

Toll.

the following statements: "Ocean-front lands from the northern to the southern border of the state ought to be treated uniformly." 254 Ore., at 595, 462 P. 2d, at 676.

A street or way opening at both ends into another street or public highway, so that one can go through and get out of it without returning. It differs from a cul de sac, which is o

that suppression motions, as a method of enforcing the prohibition of § 2515, must be made in accordance with the restrictions upon forums, procedures, and grounds specified in § 2

that a claim arises under federal law if federal law provides a necessary element of the plaintiff's claim for relief.

The operation of the mind. No one can be punished for his mere thoughts, however wicked they may be. Human laws cannot reach them, — first, because they are unknown; and secondly,

This word may by custom or usage of trade acquire a peculiar meaning, as when applied to rabbits it has been held to denote one hundred dozen; 3 B. & Ad. 728.

other, and which consists in a power to cause it to be sold, in order to be paid his claim out of the proceeds. There ate two species of hypothecation, one called pledge, pignus, a