The removal of goods or persons from one; place to another, by a carrier. See Railrpad Co. v. Pratt, 23 wall. 133, 22 L. Ed. 827; Interstate Com-meroe Com’n v. Brimson, 154 U. S. 447., 14 Sup. CL 1125, 38 L. Ed. 1047; Gloucester Ferry Co. v. Pennsylvania, 114 U% S. 196, $ Sup. Ct. 826, 29 L. Ed. 158
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A fact by mea ne of wbich a right is transferred or passes from one person to another; one, that is, which fulfills the double function of terminating the right of one person tp an object, and of originating the right of another to it.
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In tbe civil law. The right which heirs or legatees may have- of passing to their successors the inheritance qr legacy to which they were entitled, if they happen to die without having.exercised their rights. Domat, liv. 3, t. 1, s. 10; 4 Toullier, no. 186; Dig. 50, 17, 54; Code, 6, 5L
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The reproduction in one language of a book, document,, or speech delivered in another language
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Lat. Passage from one place to'another; transit. In transitu, on the passage, transit; or way. 2 Kent, Comm. 54X
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RY. Passing from place to place; that may pass or be changed from one place to another; not confined to one place; the opposite of “local.”
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In poor-laws. A “tran-slent person” is not exactly a persou on a Journey from one known place to another, but rather a wanderer ever ou the tramp. Middlebury v. waltham, 6 Vt. 203; Londonderry v. Landgrove. 66 Vt. 264, 29 Atl. 256
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RE, .n.' In English law. A war-rant or permit f°r the custom-house to let goods pass
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In maritime law. The act of takiug tbe cargo out of one ship aud loading it in another
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In old English law. A violation of law. Also trespass; the ac-tlon of trespass
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In old English law. A writ or action of trespass
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Lat. In old English law. A crossing of the strait, [of Dover;] a passing or salling over from England to France. The royal passages or voyages to Gascony, Brittany, and other parts of France were so called, and time was sometimes computed from them
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In Scotch law. The proceeding to be taken upon the death of one of the parties to a pending suit, whereby the action is transferred or continued, in its then condition, from the decedent to his rep-resentatives. Transference is either active or passive; the former, when it is the pur-suer (plaintiff) who dies; the latter, upon the death of the defender. , Ersk. Inst. 4, 1, 60
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A writ which certified the foot of a flne levied before justices in eyre, etc., into the chancery. Reg. orig. 669.
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A term used in a quasi legal sense, to lndlcate that the char-acter of assignability or negotiablllty attaches to the particular instrument, or that it may pass from hand to hand, carrying all rights of the original holder. The words “not transferable” are sometimes prlnted up-on a ticket, receipt, or bill of lading, to show that the same will not be good in the hands of any person other than the one to whom first issued
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An official copy of cer-tain proceedings in a court. Thus, any per-son interested in a judgment or other record of a court can obtain a transcript of it. U. S. v. Gaussen, 19 wall. 212, 22 L. Ed. 41; State v. Board of Equalization, 7 Nev. 95; Hastings School Dist. v. Caldwell, 16 Neb. 68, 19 N. W. 634; Dearborn v. Patton, 4 or. 61
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Lat in the civil lav. The settlement of a suit or matter in con-troversy, by the lltlgatlng parties, between themselves, wlthout referring it to arbltra-tlon. Hallifax, Clvll Law, b. 3, c. 8, no. 14. An agreement by whlch a sult, elther pend-ing or abont to be commenced, was forborne or discontinued on certain terms. Calvin
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