This word is used differently in different parts of the United States. In Pennsylvania and some other of the middle states, it signifies a village or a city. In some of the northeastern states it denotes a subdivision of a county, called in other places a township. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition In English law. Originally, a vill or tithing; but now a generic … [Read more...]

A payable-on-death bank account. … [Read more...]

1. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a "township" is a division of territory six miles square, containing .thirty-six sections." 2. In some of the states, this is the name given to the civil and political subdivisions of a county. See TOWN. township trustee. One of a board of officers to whom, in some states, affairs of a township are intrusted. … [Read more...]

In insurance law. To stop at a port If there he liberty granted by the policy to touch, or to touch and stay, at an intermediate port on the passage, the better opinion now is that the insured may trade there, when consistent with the object and the furtherance of the adventure, by breaking bulk, or by discharging and taking in cargo, provided it produces no unnecessary delay, … [Read more...]

In medical jurisprudence. Poisonous; having the character or producing the effects of a poison; referable to a poison; produced by or resulting from a poison. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition (Lat. toxicum; Gr. toxikon.) In medical Jurisprudence. Poisonous; having the character or producing the effects of a poison; referable to a poison; produced by or resulting … [Read more...]