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 employers 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 … [Read more...]

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 trithlng there was a court held (called "trithing-mote") which resembled the court-leet but was inferior to the county court. Trithing-mote. The court held for a trithing or riding. Trithing-reeve. The officer who superintended a trithmg … [Read more...]

Conformable to fact; correct; exact; actual; genuine; honest "In one sense, that only is true which is conformable to the actual state of things. In that sense, a statement is untrue which does not express things exactly as they are. But in another and broader sense, the word 'true' is often used as a synonym of 'honest,' 'sincere, 'not fraudulent'" Moulor v. American L. Ina Co … [Read more...]

Latin: In old English law. A trithlng man or constable of three hundred. Cowell. … [Read more...]

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...]