In Saxon and old English law. The third part of a county; a division of a county consisting of three or more hundreds. Cowell. Corrupted to the modem "riding," which is still used in Yorkshire, 1 Bl. Comm. 116. … [Read more...]
TIEMPO INHABIL
Span. A time of Inability; a time when the person is not able to pay his debts, (when, for instance, he may not alienate property to the prejudice of his creditors.) … [Read more...]
THINK
In a special finding by a jury this word is equivalent to "believe," and expresses the conclusion of the jury with sufficient positlveness. Martin v. Central Iowa Ry. Co., 59 Iowa, 414, 13 N. W. 424. … [Read more...]
THIRDS
The designation, in colloquial language, of that portion of a decedents personal estate (one-third) which goes to the widow where there is also a child or chilr dren. See Yeomans v. Stevens, 2 Allen (Mass.) 350; O'Hara v. Dever, 46 Barb. (N, Y.) 614. … [Read more...]
THIRD
Following next after the second; also, with reference to any legal instrument or transaction or judicial proceeding, any outsider or person not a party, to the affair nor immediately concerned in it. Third opposition. In Louisiana, when an, execution is levied on property which does not belong to the defendant, but to an outsider, the remedy of the owner is by an intervention … [Read more...]