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
THIRD DEGREE
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...] about THIRD
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...] about THINK
THINGUS
In Saxon law. A thane or nobleman; knight or freeman. Cowell. … [Read more...] about THINGUS
THINGS
The most general denomination of the subjects of property, as contradistinguished from persons. 2 Bl. Comm. 16. The word "estate" in general is applicable to anything of which riches or fortune may consist. The word is likewise relative to the word "things," which is the second object of jurisprudence, the rules of which are applicable to persona things, and actions. Civ. Code … [Read more...] about THINGS