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...]

These words are frequently introduced in policies of insurance, giving the party insured the right to stop and stay at certain designated points in the course of the voyage. A vessel which has the power to touch and stay at a place in the course of the voyage, must confine herself strictly to the terms of the liberty so given; for any attempt to trade at such a port during such … [Read more...]