Contracts. The act by which the owner of a thing delivers it to another person, with the intent of passing the rights which he has in it to the latter. 2. It is a rule founded on the plainest dictates of common sense, adopted in all systems of law, that no one can transfer a right to another which he has not himself: nemo plus juris ad alienum transfers potest quam ipse habet. … [Read more...]

mar. law. The act of taking the cargo out of one ship and loading it in another. 2. When this is done from necessity, it does not affect the liability of an insurer on the goods. But when the master tranships goods without necessity, he is answerable for the loss of them by capture by public enemies. … [Read more...]

In old New York law. A conveyance of land. … [Read more...]

The militia; the part of a community trained to martial exercises. … [Read more...]

In old Scotch law. ; A roll containing the particular dittay taken up on malefactors, which, with the porteous, is delivered by the justice clerk to the coroner, to the effect that the persons whose names are contained in the porteous may be attached, conform to the dittay contained in the traistis. So called, 'because committed to the traist, [trust,] faith, and credit of the … [Read more...]