Law Dictionary

A place or piece of ground on which a house formerly stood, which has been destroyed by accident or decay. It also signifies a messuage. TOG AT I (Lat.) In Roman law. Under the emp

In old English law. The owner of a toft. Cowell; Spelman.

Toft, which see.

To warn; to garnish the heir, is to warn the heir. Obsolete.

Lat. In Roman law. Advocates; so called under the empire because they were required, when appearing in court to plead a cause, to wear the toga, which had then ceased to be the cus

The words in a conveyance which show the estate intended to be conveyed. 132 111. 605. Thus, in a conveyance of land in fee simple, the grant is to "A. and his heirs, to have and t

the right of a registrant personally to appear? Does it include the right of a registrant to appear through an attorney or with an attorney? Is the question to be resolved 'under t

contr., is to accept a bill of exchange; to pay a bill accepted, or a promissory note, on the day it becomes due. Vide To Dishonour.

That may be avoided; not absolutely void.

In ecclesiastical law. A want of an incumbent upon a benefice.

voIUer, I fr. In old English law. To will; to be willing; to mean; to purport, or set forth.

voillour, I fr. In old English law. A will; a testament

Engl. law. In cases of treason the law makes it a crime to imagine the death of the king. In order to complete the offence there must, however, be an overt act; the terms compasstn

practice, is to write the names of a jury on a schedule, by the sheriff or other officer lawfully authorised. -

practice, to sue or prosecute by due course of law.

As used in this chapter, the term “to incite a riot”, or “to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot”, includes, but is not limited to, urging or instigati

murder, drug trafficking crimes, and firearm trafficking offenses.

To take effect; as, the pardon inures.

A document or sign of the existence of a fact. Tokens are either public or general, or privy tokens. They are either true or false. When a token is false, and indicates a general i

commercial law. In England this name is given to pieces of metal, made in the shape of money, passing among private persons by consent at a certain value. 2

Originally used to designate the counters issued by traders to meet the lack of small change. Now used by economists to denote the smaller money that circulates at a nominal value

smoking marihuana.

I. We being willing; the initial word of the Latin writs of certiorari. Tolentes de certis cabsis certiorari: we being willing for certain causes to be certified.

I. An injury is not done to the willing; he who consents to a thing, or makes no opposition to it, cannot complain of it as an injury.

To allow so as not to hinder; to permit as something not wholly ap-

In some countries, where religion is established by law, certain sects who do not agree with the established religion are nevertheless permitted to exist; and this permission is ca

The statute 1 W. & M. St. 1, c. 18, for exempting Protestant dissenters from the penalties of certnin laws is so called. Brown.

[t]o take away, bar, defeat, [or] annul." See 18 Oxford English Dictionary 204 (2d ed. 1989); Webster's New International Dictionary 2662 (2d ed. 1957) ("[t]o take away; to vacate;

In old English law. To take away; to bar, or defeat.

A duty imposed on travelers and goods passing on public ways. In English law. A reasonable sura due to the lord of a fair or market for tollable things sold there, Toll-thoroug'h:

Payment of toll; money charged or paid as toll; the liberty or franchise of charging toll

Payment of toll; money charged or paid as toll; the liberty or franchise of charging toll. TOLLE VOLUNTATEIM ET ERIT OMNIS actus indifferens. Take away the will, and every action w

Words constantly associated with Saxon and old English grants of liberties to the lords of manors. Bract, fols. 56, 104b, l24b, 154b. They appear to have imported the privileges of

A prison; a custom house; an exchange; also the place where goods are weighed.

A vessel by which the toll of corn for grinding is measure.

or TOLER (Law Fr. from Lat. f oiler e, q. v.) To take away; to bar or defeat. Discents que tollent entries, descents which toll or bar entries. Litt. § 385. TOLLERE (Lat.) In the c

To elevate; to lift.

I. In the civil laio. To lift up; to take away; to defeat; to bring up. Tollitur oinnis obligatio solutions ejus quod debstnr, I. Every obligation is dissolved by the payment of wh

et erit oinnis actus indlfferens, /. Take away will and every act will become indifferent

Take away the will and every act will be indifferent.

Take away the will, and every action will be indifferent Bract, fol. 2.

A gate on a bridge or a turnpike where toll is collected for the right of traveling on them. The right to obstruct a public road by means of a toll-gate and to demand payment of to

The officer who takes or collects toll.

The basic question to be answered in determining whether, under a given set of facts, a statute of limitations is to be tolled, is one of legislative intent whether the right shall

the method of calculating the amount of time available to file suit after tolling has ended.

Same as Turnpike Road. See 17 Ann. Cas. 804, note.

a proprietor's charge for the passage over a highway or bridge, exacted when and as the privilege of passage is exercised

An old excise; a duty paid by tenants of some manors to the lord for liberty to brew and sell ale. Cowell.

For purposes of this subchapter, the term “toll telephone service” means— (1) a telephonic quality communication for which (A) there is a toll charge which varies in amount with th

To bar or defeat the right of entry.

To stop the running of the statute of limitations.

In English law. A

In English law. A toll for passing over private grounds. Cowell.

In English law. A toll on beasts returning from a market. 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 101, § 102. A toll paid at the return of beasts from fair or market, though they were not sold. Cow

Theolnetum. Law Lat. In old English law. Toll. A tax, charge or imposition.

An old excise; a duty paid by tenants of some manors to the lord for liberty to brew and sell ale. Cowell.

tolcsstsr. In old English law. A toll or tribute of a sextary or sester of ale, paid by tenants of some manors for liberty to brew and sell ale.

The same as toll booth (q. v.) Also, a place where merchants meet; a local tribunal for small civil causes held at the Guildhall, Bristol.

A writ whereby a cause depending in a court baron was taken and removed into a county court. Old Nat. Brev. 4.

Wrong; rapine; extortion. Cowell.

An inferior court of record having civil jurisdiction, still existing at Bristol, England.

crim. law, is to deprive a person of such part of his body as to render him less able in fighting or defending himself than he would have otherwise been. Vide Mayhem.

the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms and conditions of the contractual relationship." S. Rep.

The term “to market” means to sell or to otherwise dispose of a porcine animal, pork, or pork product in commerce. / The term “to market” means to sell or offer to dispose of pecan

A gift or bequest to keep perpetually, a tombstone in repair offends against a rule as to perpetuities and is void, but such a condition to that effect attached to a bequest to a c

to change moderately or in minor fashion.

the combining or bringing together, in the hands of one person or set of persons, of the control of, or the power to control, several rival and competing businesses, to the end tha

In the army, by this term is understood to collect together and exhibit soldiers and their arms; it also signifies to employ recruits and put their names down in a book to enrol th

The term “ton” means 2,000 pounds. / The term “ton” means 2,000 pounds. In the case of any taxable chemical which is a gas, the term “ton” means the amount of such gas in cubic fee

the contents of the vessel expressed in tons, each of one hundred cubical feet.

Duties on vessels in proportion to their capacity. See 94 U. S. 238, 24 L. Ed. 118.

In English law. A duty imposed by parliament upon merchandise exported and imported, according to a certain rate upon every ton. Brown. In American law. A tax luid upon vessels acc

When the rent reserved by a mining lease or the like consists of a royalty on every ton of minerals gotten in the mine, it is often called a "tonnage rent." There is generally a de

A small tax per ton on vessels entering a port. It has not been levied in Great Britain, nor, it is believed, in any European country except Spain; Cent. Dtet;. It was first in for

/. I. In old English laiv. A custom or impost at so much a ton on wines and other merchandise.

A custom or impost upon wines and other merchandise exported or imported. Cowell.

In old English law. The quantity of a ton or tun, in a ship's freight or bulk, for which tonnage or tunnage was paid to the king. Pat. 2 Rich. II; Cowell.

In old Scotch law. A thief taker (qui fures exquirit). LL. Ken. Reg. § 5; Spelman. TONSURA (Lat. from tondere, to shavei or clip). In old English law. A shaving or polling; the hav

stituted by the state prosecutagainst intruders upon the public Gen. St. Mass. c. 141; 3 Pick. igh, 588.

Tonsure.

The shaving of the hair from the crown of the head.

Every exception not watched tends to assume the place of the principle,

In French law. The name of a partnership composed of creditors or recipients of perpetual or life rents or annuities, formed on the condition that the rents of those who may die sh

One whereof the members received life rents or annuities for life and the survivors prorated each deceased member’s share among them.

A system of life insurance whereby the surplus funds of the insurer are accumulated during a period called the "tontine period," and then distributed to such of the policy holders

In criminal pleading. Technical words necessary in an indictment for simple larceny. Bac. Abr. "Indictment" (Gl); Comyn, Dig. "Indictment" (G 6); Cro. Car. 37; 1 Chit. Grim. Law, 2

The usual meaning of the word "tool" is "an instrument of manual operation ;" that is, an instrument to be used and managed by the hand instead of being moved and controlled by mac

The Secretary shall develop oral healthcare components that shall include tooth-level surveillance for inclusion in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Such compo

In Scetch law. An annual rent out of a house built in a burgh. Whishaw. A duty which, from the act 1551, c. 10, appears to have been due from certain lands in Edinburgh, the nature

The term “top-heavy group” means any aggregation group if— (i) the sum (as of the determination date) of— (I) the present value of the cumulative accrued benefits for key employees

Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term “top-heavy plan” means, with respect to any plan year— (i) any defined benefit plan if, as of the determination date, the present v

The term “top-loading clothes washer” means a clothes washer which has the clothes container compartment access located on the top of the machine and which operates on a vertical a

The term “to predominantly earn a profit” means that the intent underlying the sale or disposition of firearms is predominantly one of obtaining pecuniary gain, as opposed to other

practice, is to overthrow or annul. When proceedings are clearly irregular and void the courts will quash them, both in civil and criminal cases: for example, when the array is cle

I. In old English law. To cut or dig turf. In the civil law. To disturb; to confound; to mix together.

The term “torchiere” means a portable electric lamp with a reflector bowl that directs light upward to give indirect illumination.

Voluntarily to take from another what is offered. A landlord, for example, could not be said to receive the key from his tenant, when the latter left it at his house without his kn

the act of making a record. Sometimes questions arise as to when the act of recording is complete, as in the following case. A deed of real estate was acknowledged before the regis

This word 1s derived from the French recouper, to cut again. In law it signifies the right and the act of making a set-off, defalcation or discount, by the defendant to the claim o

To pay back by the party who has received it, to the party who has paid it, money which ought not to have been paid. Ona deficiency of assets, executors and administrators cum test