Terminus

I. A limiting point either of time or space. Terminus a quo: the end from which; the beginning. Terminus ad qnem: the end to which; the termination.

In old English law. A dividing line, where metes or marks were set up; a fixed or limited period of time; an estate granted for a limited period; a term for years or life; a term of court. Terminus et feodum non possuut constare simnl in una eademque persona: the terra and the fee cannot exist together in one and the same person. Terminus Paschse: Easter term. Terminus Sancti Hilarii: Hilary term. Terminus Sancti Michaelis: Michaelmas term. Terminus Trinitatis: Trinity term.

In English ecclesiastical law. Terminus hominis: a time for the determination of appeals, shorter than the terminus juris. Terminus juris: the time of one or two years, allowed by law for the determination of appeals.

In the civil law. A period of time fixed by law; a limited number; a mark or physical object dividing lands.

1. Bound, limit, end — in space or time. Whence co-terminous. Terminus a quo. The end from which; the starting point; the beginning. Termines ad quern. The end to which; the point of ending; termination. I Morgan's Louisiana & Texas R. &c. Co. v. Texas Central R. Co., 32 F. R. S30 (1887), cases, Harlan, J. a Exp. Lange, 18 Wall. 193 (1873), cases, Clifford, J. • Newhall v. Sanger, 92 U. S. 7f.6 (1875), cases. • Bronson v. Schulten, 104 U. S. 415 (1881), cases, Miller, J.; Phillips V. Negley, 117 id. 672-75 (1886), cases. •R. S. § 746. • Speer v. Crawford, 8 Mete. *313 (Ky., 1860); People V Brundage, 78 N. T. 407 (1879), Church, C. J. ■A-Pply, respectively, to the places of beginning and ending of ways, of risks in marine insurance, to transfers of title, etc' See At; From; To. 2. An estate for years: since its existence is limited, begins and ends. Interesse termini. Interest in (of) a term. Describes a right to the possession of an estate for years at a future time. A bare lease does not vest an estate in the lessee. It merely gives him a right of entry, which is his interest in the term, or interesse termini. When he has actually entered, and thereby accepted the grant, the estate is vested in him, and he is possessed not properly of the land but of the term of years: the possession or seisin of the land still remaining in him who has the freehold.^ See Term, 3. 3. Ending: word, expression, term. Ex vi termini. From the force of the word; from the meaning vrhich inheres in the expression. Plural, ex vi terminorum. Deed, bond, obligation, and like yords import, ex vi termini (or ex vi terminorum), sealed instruments."

/. A bound, limit. Terminus of beginning; terminus ad quern, Terminus juris: the time of one lish ecclesiastical courts for appeals.

Boundary; a limit, either of space or time. The word sometimes denotes an estate for a term of years. See Inteeesse Termini. Terminus a quo. The limit from which. The point of beginning of a private way is so called. Terminus ad quern. The limit to which. The point of termination of a private way is so called.