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...]

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

remedies. In actions arising ex contractu some statutes give treble damages; and these statutes have been liberally construed to mean actually treble damages; for example, if the jury give twenty dollars damages for a forcible entry the court will award forty dollars more, so as to make the total amount of damages sixty dollars. 2. The construction on the words treble damages, … [Read more...]

weights and measures. An allowance made for the water or dust that may be mixed with any commodity. It differs from tare. … [Read more...]

The name of an engine of punishment, said to be synonymous with tumbrel, castigatory or cucking-stool. … [Read more...]