In Scotch law. The maker or creator of a trust

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In old European law. Trust; falth; confidence; fidelity

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1. An equltable or beneficial right or title to land or other property, held for the beneficiary by another person, in whom resides the legal title or ownership, recognized and enforced by courts of chan-cery. See Goodwin v. McMinn, 193 Pa. 646, 44 AO. 1094, 74 Am. St. Rep. 703; Beers v. Lyon, 21 Conn. 613; Seymour v. Freer, 8 wall. 202, 19 L. Ed. 300

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The person appointed, or required by law, to execute a trust; one in whom an estate, Interest, or power is vested, under an express or implied agreement to administer or exercise it for the benefit of to the use of another

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In English law. This name is given to the statute 1 A 2 wm. IV. c. 37, passed to abolish what is commonly called the “truck system," under which em-ployers were in the practice of paying the wages of their work people in goods, or of requiring them to purchase goods at certain shops. This led to laborers being compelled to take goods of inferior quality at a high price. The act applies to all artificers, work-men, and laborers, except those engaged in certain trades, especlally Iron and metal works, quarries, cloth, silk, and glass manu-factories. It does uot apply to domestic or agricultural servants. Sweet

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Conformable to fact; correct; ex-act; actual; genulne; honest

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A weight of twelve ounces to the pound, having its name from Troyes, a city in Aube, France

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In International law. A sus-pension or temporary cessation of hostili-ties by agreement between belligerent pow-era; an armistice, wheat. Int. Law, 442

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Money formerly col-lected and raised in London, and the sev-eral counties of England, towards providing harness and maintenance for the militia, etc

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In common-law practice, the action of trover (or trover and conversion) is a species of action on the case, and origl-nally lay for the recovery of damages against a person who had found another’s goods and wrongfully converted them to his own use. Subsequently the allegation of the loss of the goods by the plaintiff and the finding ot them by the defendant was merely fictitious, and the actlon became the remedy for any wrongful interference with or detention of the goods of another. 3 Steph. Comm. 426. Sweet. See Burnham v. PIdcock, 33 Misc Rep. 65, 66 N. Y. Supp. 800; Larson v. Daw

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In English law. A cue-tomary duty or toll for weighlng wool; eo-called because it was weighed by a conunoo trona, or beam. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12

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A weigher of wool. Co-well

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In the civil law. Juridical days; days allowed to the prsetor for deciding causes; days on which the prtetor might speak the three characteristic words ot hls office, vlz., do, dico, addico. Cal-vln. otherwise called “dies fasti." 8 BL Comm. 424, and note u

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Trifling; lnconslderable; of small worth or Importance. In equity, a demurrer wlll lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as be-ing below the dlgnlty of the court 4 Bout. Inst. no. 4237

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In Saxon law. one of the territorial divisions of England, being the third part of so county, and comprising three or more hundreds, wlthin the trithlng there was a court held (called “trlthlng-mote”) which resembled the court-leet, but was in-ferior to the county court

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Lat In

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Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandmother's great-grandmother; the female ascendant in the sixth degree

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Lat. In the civll law. A great-grandfather's great-grandfather; the male ascendant in the sixth degree

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Lat. In the civil law. The reply of the plaintiff to the rejoinder of the defendant. It corresponds to the sur-rejoinder of common law. InsL 4, 14; Bract. 1. 5, t 5, c. L

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In old forest law. A free-dom from the dnty of attending the lord of a forest when engaged in the chase. Spel-inan

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In conveyancing, of three parts; a term applied to an indenture to which there are three several parties, (of the first, second, and third parts,) and whlch is executed in triplicate

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L. Fr. In old plead-ing. A rejoinder in pleading; the defend-ant’s answer to the plaintiff’s replication. Brltt c. 77

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In practice. Persons who are appointed to try challenges to jurors, i. e., to hear and determine whether a juror challenged for favor is or is not qualified to serve

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Sittings of the Eugllsh court of appeal and of the high court of justice in London and Middlesex, commencing on the Tuesday after whitsun week, and terminating on the 8th of August

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