In old English practice, A word written by the foreign opposer or other officer opposite to a debt due the king, to denote that it was a good debt; which was hence said to be totted. … [Read more...]

L. Latin: In the old reports. The whole court. … [Read more...]

The Massachusetts act of assembly of 1805, c. 100, which provided that the tools of any debtor necessary for his trade and occupation, should be exempted from execution, was held to designate those implements which are commonly used by the hand of one man, in some manual labor necessary for his subsistence. The apparatus of a printing office, such as types, presses are not … [Read more...]

Complete; containing the whole; as the total amount of an account is all the items of such account added together; total incapacity, is an absolute and complete incapacity to do a thing. A married woman is totally incapable to make a contract, because, although having intelligence, she has not legal capacity and an idiot is totally incapable to enter into a contract, because he … [Read more...]

The tools which a person uses in performing work for his or her occupation, e.g. an electrician would have pliers, electrical tape, etc. Such tools of the trade are exempt property for bankruptcy purposes. … [Read more...]