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TRESPASSER

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One who has committed trespass; one who unlawfully enters or intrudes upon another's land, or unlawfully and forcibly takes another's personal property. Joint trespassers. Two or more who unite In committing a trespass. Trespasser ab initio. Trespasser from the beginning. A term applied to a tort-feasor whose acts relate back so as to make a previous act, at the time innocent, … [Read more...]

TREBLE

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Triple, three times an amount. … [Read more...]

TRESTORNARE

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In old English law. To turn aside; to divert a stream from its course. Bract, fols. 115, 2345. To turn or alter the course of a road. Cowell. … [Read more...]

TREBLE COSTS

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remedies. By treble costs, in the English law, is understood, 1st. The usual taxed costs. 2d. Half thereof. 3d. Half the latter; so that in effect the treble costs amount only to the taxed costs, and three-fourths thereof. 2. Treble costs are sometimes given by statutes, and this is the construction put upon them. 3. In Pennsylvania the rule is different; when an act of … [Read more...]

TRESVIRI

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Latin: In Roman law. Officers who had the charge of prisons, and the execution of condemned criminals. Calvin … [Read more...]

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