Titulus

In the Civil Law. Title; the source or ground of possession. / In Ecclesiastical Law. A temple or church. TO. A term of exclusion, unless by necessary implication it is manifestly used in a different sense. Bradley v. Rice, 13 Me. 201, 29 Am. Dec. 501; Montgomery v. Reed, 69 Me. 514; State v. Bushey, S4 Me. 460, 24 Atl. 940. An order extending the time for signing a bill of exceptions to a certain day, is inclusive of such day; Gottleib v. Wolf Co., 75 Md. 126, 23 Atl. 198; but “from” an object “to” an object excludes the terminus referred to; State v. Bushey, 84 Me. 459, 24 Atl. 940. See From.

Lat In the civil law. Title ; the source or ground of possession; the means whereby possession of a thing is acquired, whether such possession be lawful or not.

In old ecclesiastical law. A temple or church; the material edifice. So called because the priest in charge of it derived therefrom his name and title. Spelman.

1. The civil law and old law-Latin words for title {q. v.), as in the following extract from Lord Coke: Titulus est justa causa possidendi id quod nostrum est; dicitur a tuendo. 8 Coke, 153. A title is the just right of possessing that which is our own; it is so called from tuendo, defending. 2. Also, in old ecclesiastical law, titulus signified a church, in the sense of a building, an edifice devoted to religious uses. TO. The word " to " (also " from ") has not a precise, fixed, legal meaning, but may signify within or into; as where a railroad is chartered to run to a city desigter, is authorized to bring its road to a city, and acquire property witliin it, the right to enter the city is also conferred. Moses v. Pittsburgh, &c. R. R. Co., 21 lU. 516. But generally " to " (as well as "from") is a word of exclusion, unless the context clearly shows a different sense intended. Bradley v. Rice, 13 Me. 198. A boundary "on" a stream, or "by" a stream, or " to " a stream, includes the flats at least to low-water mark, and in many cases to the middle thread of the river. There may, however, be a distinction when the boundary is " to the bank; " that in such cases the boundary is or may be limited to the very bank, and may not extend into the stream, or the flats thereof. 3 Sumn. 178.