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med. jur. The anterior part of the neck. 2. The word throat, in an indictment which charged the defendant with murder, by cutting the throat of the deceased, does not mean, and is not to be confined to that part of the neck which is scientifically called the throat, but signifies that which is commonly called the throat. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition In medical … [Read more...] about THROAT

measures. A liquid measure containing the third part of a pipe, or forty-two gallons. … [Read more...] about TIERCE

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...] about THIRD

Scotch law. The name of servitude by which lands are astricted or thirled to a particular mill, and the possessors bound to grind their grain there, for the payment of certain multures and sequels as the agreed price of grinding. … [Read more...] about THIRLAGE

The most severe. Typically referred to during cross examination when a witness is given the third degree, which is a comprehensive, prolonged, thorough and exhausting series of questions under cross examination. … [Read more...] about THIRD DEGREE