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TOOLS

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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...]

TOTAL

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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...]

TOD

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Short for transfer on death. … [Read more...]

TOLT

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A writ whereby a cause depending in a court baron was taken and removed into a county court Old Nat Brev. 4. … [Read more...]

TOFT

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A place or piece of ground on which, a house formerly stood, which has been destroyed by accident or decay; it also signifies a message. … [Read more...]

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