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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...] about TOWN

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

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...] about TOWNSHIP

A wrongdoer; one who commits or is guilty of a tort ' … [Read more...] about TORT-FEASOR

An act that constitutes a tort. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition Wrongful; of the nature of a tort. Formerly certain modes of conveyance (e.g., feoffments, fines, etc.) had the effect of passing not merely the estate of the person making the conveyance, but the whole fee simple, to the injury of the person really entitled to the fee; and they were hence called … [Read more...] about TORTIOUS