Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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TRANSLATITIUM EDICTTTM. In Roman law. The prsetor, on his accession t» office, did not usually publish an entirely neve edict, but retained the whole or a part of that promulgated by his predecessor, as being oi an approved or permanently useful character The portion thus repeated or handed down from year to year was called the "edictum translatitium." See Mackeld. Rom. Law, §36. TRANSLATIVE PACT. A fact by means of which a right is transferred or passes from one person to another; one, that is, which fulfills the double function of ter minating the right of one person to an object, and of originating the right of another to it. TRANSMISSION. In the civil law. The right which heirs or legatees may have oi passing to their successors the inheritance or legacy to which they were entitled, if they happen to die without having exercised their rights. Domat, liv. 3,1.1, s. 10; 4 Toullier, no. 186; Dig. 50, 17, 54; Code, 6, 51. TRANSPORT. In old New York law. A conveyance of land. TRANSPORTATION. The removal of goods or persons from one place to anothei, by a carrier. In criminal law. A species of punish ment consisting in removing the criminal from his own country to another, (usually n penal colony,) there to remain in exile for * prescribed period. TRANSUMPTS. In Scotch law, ati action of transumpt is an action competent to any one having a partial interest in a writing, or immediate use for it, to support his title or defenses in other actions. It is directed against the custodier of the writing calling upon him to exhibit it, in order that a transumpt, i. «., a copy, may be judicially made and delivered to the pursuer. Bell. TRASLADO. In Spanish law. A copy, a sight. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 7, c. 3. A copy of a document taken by the notary from the original, or a subsequent copy taken from the protocol, and not a copy taken di rectly from the matrix or protocol. (Tex.) 16 S. W. Kep. 54. TRASSANS. Drawing; one who draws The drawer of a bill of exchange. TRASSATUS. One who is drawn, oi drawn upon. The drawee of a bill of ex change. Heinecc. de Camb. c. 6, §§ 5, 6.

journey from one known place to another, but rather a wanderer ever on the tramp. 6 Vt. 203; 51 Vt 423. In Spanish law. A "transient foreigner" is one who visits the country, without the intention of remaining. 10 Tex. 170. TRANSIRE, «. Lat. To go, or pass over; to pass from one thing, person, or place to another. TRANSIRE, n. In English law. A warrant or permit for the custom-house to let goods pass. Transit in rem judicatam. It passes into a matter adjudged; it becomes converted into a res judicata or judgment. A contract upon which a judgment is obtained is said to pass in rem judicatam. 2 Sumn. 436; 3 East, 251; 18 Johns. 480. Transit terra cum onere. Land passes subject to any burden affecting it. Co. Litt. 231a/ Broom, Max. 495, 706. TRANSITIVE COVENANT. One which binds not only the covenantor, but also passes over, with obligatory force, to his representatives. TRANSITORY. Passing from place to place; that may pass or be changed from one place to another; not confined to one place; the opposite of "local." TRANSITORY ACTION. Actions are said to be either local or transitory. An ac tion is "local," when the principal facts on which it is founded pertain to a particular place. An action is termed "transitory," when the principal fact on which it is found ed is of a transitory kind, and might be sup posed to have happened anywhere; and there fore all actions founded on debts, contracts, and such like matters relating to the person or personal property, come under this latter denomination. Steph. PI. 316, 317. TRANSITUS. Lat. Passage from one place to another; transit. In transitu, on the passage, transit, or way. 2 Kent, Comm. 543. TRANSIiADO. Span. A transcript. TRANSLATION. The reproduction in one language of a book, document, or speech delivered in another language. The transfer of property; but in this sense It is seldom used. 2 Bl. Comm. 294. In ecclesiastical law. As applied to a bishop, the term denotes his removal from one diocese to another

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