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A person or a company which handles the transfer of shares of a corporations stock to new owners. … [Read more...] about TRANSFER AGENT

In poor-laws. A "transient person" is not exactly a person on a journey from one known place to another but rather a wanderer ever on the tramp. In Spanish law. A "transient foreigner" is one who visits the country without the intention of remaining. … [Read more...] about TRANSIENT

The removal of goods or persons from one place to another, by a carrier. In criminal law. A species of punishment consisting in removing the criminal from his own country to another, (usually a penal colony,) there to remain in exile for a prescribed period. … [Read more...] about TRANSPORTATION

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...] about TRAISTIS

crimes. One guilty of treason. 2. The punishment of a traitor is death. … [Read more...] about TRAITOR