L. Fr. In old pleading. A rejoinder in pleading; the defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s replication . Britt. c. 77.
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TRIPLICATIO
Lat. In the civil law . The reply of the plaintiff to the rejoinder of the defendant. It corresponds to the surrejoinder of common law. Inst 4, 14; Bract. 1. […]
TRISTRIS
In old forest law. A freedom from the duty of attending the lord of a forest when engaged In the chase. Spelman.
TRITAVIA
Lat. In the civil law . A great- grandmother ‘s great-grandmother; the female ascendant In the sixth degree.
TRITAVUS
Lat. In the civil law . A great- grandfather ‘s great-grandfather; the male ascendant in the sixth degree.
TRITHING
In Saxon law. One of the territorial divisions of England, being the third part of a county, and comprising three or more hundreds. Within the trithing there was a court […]
TRIUMVIR
Lat. In old English law . A trithing man or constable of three hundred. Cowell.
TRIUMVIRI CAPITAEES
Lat. In Roman law. Officers who had charge of the prison, through whose intervention punishments were inflicted. They had eight lictors to execute their orders. Vicat, Voc. Jur.
TRIVERBIAL DAYS
In the civil law . Juridical days; days allowed to the praetor for deciding causes; days on which the pr.-etor might speak the three characteristic words of his office, viz., […]
TRIVIAL
Trifling; inconsiderable; of small worth or importance. In equity, a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute , as be- […]
TROJAN HORSE
Computer program that appears to be legitimate and useful but is secretly performing illegal and destructive functions.
TRONAGE
In English law . A customary duty or toll for weighing wool; so called because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12.
TRONATOR
A weigher of wool. Co- well.
TROPHY MONEY
Money formerly collected and raised in London, and the several counties of England, towards providing harness and maintenance for the militia, etc.
TROPICAL DRY FOREST
Ecosystem with majority of deciduous trees.
TROPICAL PRODUCTS
Agricultural products that are exported by countries in tropical areas.
TROPICAL RAIN FOREST
Dense forest of trees that are evergreen that grow in regions of heavy rainfall at tropical latitudes, Borneo, Amazon, Basin, and warm temperate latitudes, Australia, Florida etc. Diverse and complex […]
TROPICS
Region lying between the Tropic of Cancer, north of the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn, south of the Equator.
TROUBLED DEBT RESTRUCTURING
Process where a lender, bank, modifies loan agreement terms that will minimise losing custom from customer’s who are incapable financially to meet previous terms.
TROUGH
An economics’ cycle lowest point. Compare to peak.
TROVER
In common-law practice , the action of trover (or trover and conversion) Is a species of action on the case , and originally lay for the recovery of damages against […]
TROY WEIGHT
A weight of twelve ounces to the pound, having its name from Troyes, a city in Aube, France.
TRUANT
the term that is given to a minor who is absent from school and does not have his parents’ permission to be absent.
TRUCE
In international law . A suspension or temporary cessation of hostilities by agreement between belligerent powers; an armistice. Wheat. Int. Law, 442.
TRUCK ACT
In English law . This name is given to the statute 1 & 2 Wm. IV. c. 37, passed to abolish commonly called the “truck system,” under which employers were […]