Lat. In the civil and old English law. Time In general. A time limited; a season; e. p., tempus pessonis, mast time in the forest. Tempns continuum. In the civil law. A continuous or absolute period of time. A term which begins to run from a certain event, even though he for whom it runs has no knowledge of the event, and in which, when it has once begun to run, all the days are reckoned as they follow one another in the calendar. Dig. 3, 2, 8; Mackeld. Rom. Law,