A complete loss occurs where property is completely destroyed. Frequently used for insurance purposes, such as in auto insurance, where a total loss is also called a "write-off" which represents a judgment call made by an insurance company or insurer that the loss of value or cost of repair of the vehicle (or property) exceeds the policy value. As a result, repair is not a … [Read more...] about TOTAL LOSS
TOTAL LOSS
TOTAL
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...] about TOTAL
TOTA CURIA
L. Latin: In the old reports. The whole court. … [Read more...] about TOTA CURIA
TOT
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...] about TOT
TORY
Originally a nickname for the wild Irish in Ulster. Afterwards given to, and adopted by, one of the two great parliamentary parties which have alternately governed Great Britain since the Revolution in 1688. Wharton. The name was also given, in America, during the struggle of the colonies for independence, to the party of those residents who favored the side of the king and … [Read more...] about TORY