Literally, treasure found. Money or coin, gold, silver, plate or bullion found hidden in the earth or other private place, the owner thereof being unknown. 1 Bl. Comm. 205. Called In Latin "thesaurus inventus;" and in Saxon "fyn-deringa" See Huthmacher v Harris, 38 Pa. 409, 80 Am. Dec. 502; LIvermore v. White, 74 Me 456, 43 Am. Rep. 600; Sovern v. Yoran, 16 Or. 269, 20 Pac. … [Read more...]

The term is used In a broad sense to designate those who patronize inns. Traveler is ope who travels in any way. Distance is not material. A townsman or neighbor may be a traveler, and therefore a guest at an inn, as well as he who comes from a distance or from a foreign Country. Walling v. Potter, 35 Conn. 185. … [Read more...]

A place or building in which stores of wealth are reposited; particularly, a place where the public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government Webster. That department of government which ia charged with the receipt, custody, and dia-bursement {pursuant to appropriations) of the public revenues or funds. Treasury bench. In … [Read more...]

Lat. In old English law. A crossing of the strait [of Dover;] a passing or sailing 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. … [Read more...]

Latin: In Roman law. The praetor, on his accession to office, did not usually publish an entirely new edict but retained the whole or a part of that promulgated by his predecessor, as being of an approved or permanently useful character. The portion thus repeated or handed down from year to year was called the '"edictum transletitium" See Mackeld. Rom. Law, … [Read more...]