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All my effects and property. See 55 U. S. 400, 14 L. Ed. 472.
Fr. All; whole; entirely. Tout temps prist, always ready.
Everything which the law does not prohibit is permitted.
Everything is permitted which is not forbidden by law.
Always ready.
crim. law, is to of:fer; to publish. To utter and publish a counterfeit note is to assert and declare, directly or indirectly, by words or actions, that the note offered is good. I
All one sound. See Idem gonans .
The supplying of power by a vessel, usually one propelled by steam, to tow or draw another is towage.
contracts. To give a pledge or security for the performance of any thing; as to wage or page deliverance; to wage law, &c. o. Litt. 294. This word is but little used.
A contract merely for towage does not require or contemplate such a delivery as is ordinarily deemed essential to bailment.
Towage service is the employment of one vessel to expedite the voyage of another.
The word has been held to mean not simply “to” but to include “about.” Hudson v. State, 6 Tex. App. 565, 32 Am. Rep_ 593. See To.
In a course of line leading to or in the direction of. 180 Mich. 654.
Towaway trailer transporter combination.—The term "towaway trailer transporter combination" means a combination of vehicles consisting of a trailer transporter towing uni
See Vessel. The weight of authority is that the owner of a steamboat engaged in the business of towing is not a common carrier.^ Towage. Drawing a vessel or other craft through the
The term "tower" means a tubular or lattice structure which supports the nacelle and rotor of a wind turbine.
See Rack. TOWN; TOWNSHIP. "Town" is from the Anglo-Saxon tun, an inolosure: a garden inclosed by a hedge, or a collection of houses inclosed by a wall. Its customary usage in Engla
Although the policy of the law has not imposed on the towing boat the obligation resting on a common carrier, it does require on the part of the persons engaged in her management,
“Towing light” means a yellow light having the same characteristics as the “sternlight” defined in paragraph (c) of this Rule.
“towing vessel” means any commercial vessel engaged in towing another vessel astern, alongside, or by pushing ahead.
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That is to say, 99 111. 560; namely; scilicet; videlicet. In Pleading. In describing various ment which must be strictly proved. 47 111. 177.
- towndefined inCase LawU.S. CodeCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Abbott (1879)Bouvier (1839)
any walled collection of houses.
Under the prohibitory liquor laws in force in some of the New England states a town agent ls a person appointed in each town to purchase intoxicating liquors for the town and havin
The term “Town Agreement” means the agreement executed on June 16, 1994, by the Mayor of the town of Montville and the Chief of the Mohegan Tribe.
The governing body of a town.
In English Practice. A cause tried at the sittings for London and Middlesex. 3 Steph. Com. 556.
An officer who manages the public business of a town.
An officer of a town charged with collecting the township taxes.
One of the board of officers in whom, under the laws of some of the states, the management of the busmess of a town is vested. Abbott.
Same as Town board.
An officer in a town whose business it is to make proclamations.
An assemblage of th^ voters of a town to select town officers and discuss other business of the town.
See 50 Conn. 544.
The acknowledgment and recording of a town plat vests the legal title to the ground embraced in the streets and alleys in the corporation of the town Therefore it is held that the
The reeve or chief officer of a town.
In several states, an officer having the powers and duties of a chief constable or head of the police department of a town or village.
The public lands of the ^M^*f «.®***®?.*'^®..^™^^y®<l first into tracts called "townships,'; being in extent six miles ^^^,^1% ^^? subdivisions of a township are called "sections,"
One of a board of officers to whom, in some states, affairs of a township are intrusted.
The English Towns Improvement Clauses Act of 1847 was passed to consolidate in one act certain provisions usually contained in acts for paving, draining, cleansing, lighting, and i
Land set apart from the public domain as a site or locality for a town. See 28 Colo. 519, 66 Pac. 894.
The president is authorized (Act of March 3, 1863) to reserve from the public lands, surveyed or unsurveyed, town sites on the shores of harbors, at the junction of rivers, importa
One levied to meet the separate expenses of a town. Opposed to "state tax," "county tax."
Blood-poisoning; the condition of the system caused by the presence of toxic agents in the circulation ; including both septicemia and pyæ-mta.
(Lat. toxicum; Gr. toxikon.) In medical jurisprudence. Poisonous; having the character or producing the effects of a poison; referable to a poison; produced by or resulting from a
The term “toxic air pollutants” means the aggregate emissions of the following:
Poisonous; containing poison.
A poison; a toxic agent; any substance capable of producing toxica-tion or poisoning.
To poison. Not used to describe the act of one who administers a poison, but the action of the drug or poison Itself. —Intoxication. The state of being poisoned; the condition prod
“toxic chemical” has the meaning given the term in section 229F(8)(A) of this title ; / In general.—The term "toxic chemical" means any chemical which through its chemica
Such as are caused by the action of a poison on the nervous system.
Weakness of mind or feeble cerebral activity, approaching imbecility, resulting from continued use or administration of slow poisons or of the more active poisons in repeated small
The term "toxic-exposed veteran" means any veteran described in section 1710(e)(1) of this title.
The term "toxic exposure" includes the following: (A) A toxic exposure risk activity, as defined in section 1710(e)(4) of this title. (B) An exposure to a substance, chem
The term “toxic exposure risk activity” means any activity— (i) that requires a corresponding entry in an exposure tracking record system (as defined in section 1119(c) of this tit
The branch of medicine dealing with poisons.
An excessive addiction to the use of toxic or poisonous drugs or other substances; a form of mania or affective insanity characterized by an irresistible impulse to indulgence in o
A diseased state of the system due to the presence.and action of any poison.
For purposes of this subsection, the term “toxic pollutant” means those toxic pollutants referred to in section 1311(b)(2)(C) and 1311(b)(2)(D) of this title and such other polluta
In this section, the term “toxics release inventory” means the list of toxic chemicals subject to the requirements of section 11023(c) of title 42 .
The terms "biological agent" and "toxin" have the meanings given those terms in section 178 of title 18. / The terms “biological agent” and “toxin” have the mea
Morbid dread of being poisoned ; a form of insanity manifesting itself by an excessive and unfounded apprehension of death by poison.
Township, which see.
The terms “Trade Policy Committee” and “TPC” mean the interagency organization established under section 1872 of this title .
and recognises the law as decided in "Roberts" v. "Withered", in 5 "Mod." The decision there, was, that by the illegal act of the party the property was divested out of him.
Lat In the civil law. A ibsam or rafter of a house. Calvin. In old English law. A measure of grain, containing twenty-four sheaves; a thrave. Spelman.
IH old English law. The track or trace of a felon, by whidh he was pursued with the hue and cry; a footstep, hoof print, or wheel track. Bracton, fols. 116, 121b.
A tracing is a mechanical copy or fac simile of an original, produced by following its lines, with a pen or pencil, through a transparent medium, called tracing paper. Chapman v. F
the term “trackage” means a railroad line of a rail carrier, including a spur, industrial, team, switching, side, yard, or station track, and a facility of a rail carrier.
a commission may [not] compel them to build branch lines, so as to connect roads lying at a distance from each other; nor does it mean that they may be required to make connections
Definition.—As used in this section, the term “tracking device” means an electronic or mechanical device which permits the tracking of the movement of a person or object.
- tractdefined inCase LawU.S. CodeCyclopedic (1922)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Anderson (1889)Abbott (1879)Bouvier (1839)
land, not timber, and the words 'equivalent quantity' refer to the antecedent word 'tract,' and consequently also mean land.
I In old Engllth law. To treat, or handle; to draw or drag. Tractari et suspendi: to be drawn and hanged.
The term “tract association” means a cabin owner association in which all cabin owners within a tract are eligible for membership.
Let smiths perform the work of smiths. 3 Coke, Epist.
For purposes of this section, the term “tract of real property” means a single piece of real property, except that 2 or more pieces of real property shall be considered a tract if
By article First, Section 10, Clause 1, of the Constitution of the United States “No state shall pass... any bill of attainder, ex poat facto law, or law impairing the obligation o
Purchasers of the bonds of a municipality issued to aid the building of a railway, which recite a compliance with the law authorizing their issue, are not required to ascertain con
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You deliver to bail. In old English practice. The name of a writ which might be issued in behalf of a party who, upon the writ de odio et atia, had been found to have been maliciou
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[T]he word 'trade' is often, and indeed generally, used in a broader sense, as equivalent to occupation, employment, or business, whether manual or mercantile. Wherever any occupat
RESTRAINT OF. See Restraint of Trade.
The negotiations between union and management result in what often has been called a trade agreement, rather than in a contract of employment. Without pushing the analogy too far,
While in a narrow and restricted sense the terms 'commerce,' or commercial,' and 'trade' may be limited to the purchase and sale or exchange of goods and commodities, they may conn
The term “trade association” means— (A) any corporation, unincorporated association, federation, business league, professional or business organization not organized or operated fo
FEDERAL. An act of congress was passed September 2G, 1914, creating a Federal Trade Commission, of the Senate, three only to be members of the same political party. The first commi
A silver coin of the United States, of the weight of four hundred and twenty grains, troy. Rev. St. U. S. § 3513 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2345).
In this section, the terms "commercial operations", "customs and trade laws of the United States", "trade enforcement", and "trade facilitation&q
In this section, the terms "commercial operations", "customs and trade laws of the United States", "trade enforcement", and "trade facilitation&q
If the house were built principally for a dwelling house for the family, independently of carrying on the trade, then it would doubtless be deemed a fixture, falling under the gene
Fixtures used by a tenant in his business which he has the right to remove at the end of his term. See 37 App. Div. (N. Y.) 257, 55 N. Y. Supp. 924.
The term “trade laws” means— (A) chapter 1 of title II of the Trade Act of 1974 ( 19 U.S.C. 2251 et seq., relating to injury caused by import competition); (B) chapters 2 and 3 of
The right to use a trademark is recognized as a kind of property, of which the owner is entitled to the exclusive enjoyment to the extent that it has been actually used. The infrin
any word, name, symbol, or device or any combination thereof adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant to identify his goods and distinguish them from those manufactured or so
The term “Trademark Act of 1946” means the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the registration and protection of trademarks used in commerce, to carry out the provisions of certai
The trademark is treated as merely a protection for the good will, and not the subject of property except in connection with an existing business.
the essence of the wrong consists in the sale of the goods of one manufacturer or vendor as those of another; and that it is only when this false representation is directly or indi
As used in this section, the word "trademarks" includes trademarks, trade names, and the goodwill of the business to which a trademark or trade name is appurtenant.
This is the statute 38 & 39 Viet. c. 91, amended by the acts of 1876 and 1877. It provides for the establishment of a register of trade-marks under the superintendence of the commi
The terms “trade name” and “commercial name” mean any name used by a person to identify his or her business or vocation.
the term “trade negotiation” means negotiations which the President determines to undertake to enter into a trade agreement pursuant to section 1102 of the Omnibus Trade and Compet
Devoting one's time and energies to the affairs of a corporation is not of itself, and without more, a trade or business of the person so engaged. Though such activities may produc