TURNKEY

person under the superintendence of a jailor, whose employment is to open and fasten the prison doors and to prevent the prisoners from escaping. 2. It is his duty to use due diligence, and he may be punished for gross neglect or willful misconduct in permitting prisoners to escape. 3. The provision of a complete array of different services for or stages in product of a product … [Read more...] about TURNKEY

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This phrase means that a person whose estate is divested by usurpation cannot expel the possessor by mere entry, but must have recourse to an action, either possessory or droitural. Mosley A Whitley. … [Read more...] about TURNED TO A RIGHT

One who unexpectedly changes sides, e.g. a turncoat witness who is to testify as a friendly witness but suddenly, during trial, becomes a hostile witness. … [Read more...] about TURNCOAT

The great court-leet of the county, as the old county court was the court-baron. Of this the sheriff is judge, and the court is incident to his office; wherefore it is called the "sheriff's tourn;" and it had its name originally from the sheriff making a turn of circuit about his shire, and holding this court in each respective hundred. Wharton. … [Read more...] about TURN, OR TOURN