pleading. This was formerly used in pleading instead of rebutter. … [Read more...] about TRIPLICATION
TRIVIAL
Of small importance. It is a rule in equity that a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as being below the dignity of the court. … [Read more...] about TRIVIAL
TRUE BILL
A true bill is an indictment approved of by a grand jury. practice. These words are endorsed on a bill of indictment, when a grand jury, after having heard the witnesses for the government, are of opinion that there is sufficient cause to put the defendant on his trial. Formerly, the endorsement was Billa vera, when legal proceedings were in Latin; it is still the practice to … [Read more...] about TRUE BILL
TRONAGE
Engl. law. A customary duty or toll for weighing wool, so called because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam. … [Read more...] about TRONAGE
TRUST
contracts, devises. An equitable right, title or interest in property, real or personal, distinct from its legal ownership; or it is a personal obligation for paying, delivering or performing anything, where the person trusting has no real. right or security, for by, that act he confides altogether to the faithfulness of those entrusted. This is its most general meaning, and … [Read more...] about TRUST