TERRORIZE

To frighten excessively. … [Read more...] about TERRORIZE

The intimidation of persons through the use of force and violence in order to achieve a certain goal or end, usually violence used against civilians in order to force a government to comply with demands set forth by the terrorists. … [Read more...] about TERRORISM

A no-contest clause. … [Read more...] about TERROREM CLAUSE

That state of the mind which arises from the event or phenomenon that may serve as a prognostic of some catastrophe affright from apparent danger. 2. One of the constituents of the offence of riot is that the acts of the persons engaged in it should be to the terror of the people, as a show of arms, threatening speeches, or turbulent gestures; but it is not requisite, in order … [Read more...] about TERROR

A part of a country, separated from the rest, and subject to a particular jurisdiction. The word is derived from terreo, and is so called because the magistrate within his jurisdiction has the power of inspiring a salutary fear. Dictum cat ab eo quod magistratus intra fines ejus terrendi jus habet. Henrion de Pansy, Auth. Judiciare, 98. In speaking of the ecclesiastical … [Read more...] about TERRITORY