Scotch law. The name of an action by which a suit, which was pending at the time the parties died, is transferred from the deceased to his representatives, in the same condition in which it stood formerly. If it be the pursuer who is dead, the action is called a transference active; if the defender, it is a transference passive. … [Read more...]

pract., plead. Actions are transitory when the venue may lawfully be laid in any county, though the cause of action arose out of the jurisdiction of the court. … [Read more...]

One who makes a transfer. … [Read more...]

The act of going, or of removing goods, from one place to another. The transitus of goods from a seller commences the moment he has delivered them to an agent for the purpose of being carried to another place, and ends when the delivery is complete, which delivery may be by putting the purchaser into actual possession of the goods, or by making him a symbolical delivery. … [Read more...]

A situation where a wrongdoer intends to commit harm against one person but, instead, commits harm on another person. As such, criminal law transfers the intent the defendant had to harm the first person and transfers it to the second person, enabling a jury to find the proper intent required under statute to charge the defendant with a crime. For example, the defendant intends … [Read more...]