Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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to which there are three several parties, (of the first, second, and third parts,) and which is executed in triplicate. TRIPLICACION. L.Fr. In old plead ing. A rejoinder in pleading; the defend ant's answer to the plaintiff's replication. Britt. c. 77. TRIPLICATIO. In the civil law. The reply of the plaintiff to the rejoinder of the defendant. It corresponds to the surrejoin der of common law. Inst. 4,14; Bract. 1. 5, t. 5, c. 1. TRIPLUM. Lat. In the civil law. The triple value of a thing. Actio in trip lum, an action for the triple value. Inst. 4, 6, 21, 24. TRIPLY. In Scotch practice. A plead ing corresponding with the Latin •* triplica tio, " from which the term also was taken, ft How. State Tr. 478, 637, 638. TRISTRIS. In old forest law. A free dom from the duty of attending the lord of a forest when engaged in the chase. Spelman. TRITAVIA. Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandmother's great-grandmother; the female ascendant in the sixth degree. TRITAVUS. Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandfather's great-grandfather; the male ascendant in the sixth degree. TRITHING. In Saxon law. Oneof the territorial divisions of England, being the third part of a county, and comprising three or more hundreds. Within the tnthing there was a court held (called "trithing-mote") which resembled the court-leet, but was infe rior to the county court. TRITHING-MOTE. The court held for a trithing or riding. TRITHING-REEVE. The officer who superintended a trithing or riding. TRIUMVIR, In old English law. A trithing man or constable of three hundred Cowell. TRIUMVIRI CAPITALES. In Roman law. Officers who had charge of the prison, through whose intervention punishments were inflicted. They had eight lictors to ex ecute their orders. Vicat, Voc. Jar. TRIVERBIAL DAYS. In the civil law. Juridical days; days allowed to the praetor for deciding causes; days on which the praetor might speak the three characteristic toords of his office, viz., do, dico, addico. Calvin.

great-grandson. A male descendant in the sixth degree. Inst. 3, 6, 4. TRINEPTIS. Lat. In the eiyil law. A great-grandson's or great-granddaughter's great-granddaughter. A female descendant in the sixth degree. Inst. 3, 6, 4. TRINITY HOUSE. In English law. A society at Deptford Strond, incorporated by Hen. VIII. in 1515, for the promotion of commerce and navigation by licensing and regulating pilots, and ordering and erecting beacons, light-houses, buoys, etc. Wharton. TRINITY MASTERS are elder breth ren of the Trinity House. If a question aris ing in an admiralty action depends upon technical skill and experience in navigation, the judge or court is usually assisted at the hearing by two Trinity Masters, who sit as assessors, and advise the court on questions of a nautical character. Williams & B. Adm. Jur. 271; Sweet. TRINITY SITTINGS. Sittings of the English court of appeal and of the high court of justice in London and Middlesex, com mencing on the Tuesday after Whitsun week, and terminating on the 8th of August. TRINITY TERM. One of the four terms of the English courts of common law, beginning on the22d day of May, and ending on the 12th of June. 3 Steph. Comm. 562. TRINIUMGELDUM. In old E uropean law. An extraordinary kind of composition for an offense, consisting of three times nine, or twenty-seven times the single geld or pay ment. Spelman. TRINODA NECESSITAS. In Saxon law. A threefold necessity or burden. A term used to denote the three things from contributing to the performance of which no lands were exempted, viz., pontis repara tio, (the repair of bridges,) arcisconstructio, (the building of castles,) et expeditio contra hostem, (military service against an enemy.) 1 Bl. Comm. 263, 357. TRIORS. In practice. Persons who are appointed to try challenges to jurors, i. e., to hear and determine whether a juror chal lenged for favor is or is not qualified to serve. The lords chosen to try a peer, when in dicted for felony, in the court of the lord high steward, are also called "triors." Mozley & Whitley. TRIPARTITE. In conveyancing. Of three parts; a term applied to an indenture

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