KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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TOWNSHIP

TRADE

TOWNSHIP. 1. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a "township" is a division of territory six miles square, con taining thirty-six sections. 2. In some of the states, this is the name given to the civil and political subdivisions of a county. See TOWN. —Township trustee. One of a board of officers to whom, in some states, affairs of a township are intrusted. Poisonous; having the character or producing the effects of a poison; referable to a poison; produced by or resulting from a poison. —Toxic convulsions. Such as are caused by the action of a poison on the nervous system. —Toxic dementia. Weakness of mind or fee ble cerebral activity, approaching imbecility, re sulting from continued use or administration of slow poisons or of the more active poisons in repeated small doses, as in cases of lead poison ing and in some cases of addiction to such drugs as opium or alcohol.—Toxanemia. A condi tion of anemia (impoverishment or deficiency of blood) resulting from the action of certain toxic substances or agents.—Toxemia or toxicemia. Blood-poisoning; the condition of the system caused by the presence of toxic agents in the circulation; including both septicemia and pyce mta. —Toxicosis. A diseased state of the sys tem due to the presence.and action of any poi son. TOXICAlt. Poisonous; containing poison. TOXICANT. A poison; a toxic agent; any substance capable of producing toxica tion or poisoning. TOXICATE. To poison. Not used to de scribe tiie act of one who administers a poison, but the action of the drug or poison itself. <*-Intoxication. The state of being poisoned; the condition produced by the administration or introduction into the human system of a poison. This term is popularly used as equivalent to "drunkenness," which, however, is more accu rately described as "alcoholic intoxication."— Auto-intoxication. Self-empoisonment from the absorption of the toxic products of internal metabolism, e. g., ptomaine poisoning. The science of poisons; that department of medical science which treats of poisons, their effect, their recog nition, their antidotes, and generally of the diagnosis and therapeutics of poisoning. In its widest sense, this term may denote any poison or toxicant; but as used in pathology and medical jurisprudence it signifies, in general, any diffusible alka loidal substance (as, the ptomaines, abrin, brucin, or serpent venoms), and in particular the poisonous products of pathogenic (disease producing) bacteria. —Anti-toxin. A product of pathogenic bac teria which, in sufficient quantities, will neutra lise the toxin or poisonous product of the same bacteria. Im therapeutics, a preventive remedy (administered by inoculation) against the effect TOXIC. (Lat. toxicum; medical jurisprudence. Gr. toxikon.) In TOXICOLOGY. TOXIN.

of certain kinds of toxins, venoms, and disease germs, obtained from the blood of an animal which has previously been treated with repeated minute injections of the particular poison or germ to be neutralized.—Toxicomania. An excessive addiction to the use of toxic or poi sonous drugs or other substances; a form of mania or affective insanity characterized by an irresistible impulse to indulgence in opium, co caine, chloral, alcohol, etc.—Toxiphobia. Mor bid dread of being poisoned; a form of insanity manifesting itself by an excessive and unfound ed apprehension of death by poison. beam or rafter of a house. Calvin. In old English, law. A measure of grain, containing twenty-four sheaves; a thrave. Spelman. TRACEA. In old English law. The track or trace of a felon, by which he was pur sued with tbe hue and cry; a foot-step, hoof print, or wheel-track. Bract fols. 116, 121&. TRACT. A lot, piece or parcel of land, of greater or less size, the term not import ing, in itself, any precise dimension. See Edwards v. Derrickson, 28 N. J. Law, 45. Tractent fabrilia fabri. Let smiths per form the work of smiths. 3 Co. Epist TRADAS IN BALLIUM. You deliver to bail. In old English practice. The name of a writ which might be issued in behalf of a party who, upon the writ de odio et atia, had been found to have been maliciously ac cused of a crime, commanding the sheriff that, if the prisoner found twelve good and lawful men of the county who would be main pernors for him, he should deliver him in bail' to those twelve, until the next assize, Bract fol. 123; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 252. TRADE. The act or business of exchang ing commodities by barter; or the business of buying and selling for money; traffic; bar ter. Webster; May v. Sloan, 101 U. S. 237, 25 L. Ed. 797; U. S. v. Oassidy (D. C.) 67 Fed. 841; Queen Ins. Co. v. State, 86 Tex. 250, 24 S. W. 397, 22 L. R. A. 483. The business which a person has learned and which, he carries on for procuring sub sistence, or for profit; occupation, particu larly mechanical employment; distinguished from the liberal arts and learned professions, and from agriculture. Webster; Woodfield v. Colzey, 47 Ga. 124; People v. Warden of City Prison, 144 N. Y. 529, 39 N. E. 686, 27 L. R. A. 718; In re Stone Cutters' Ass'n, 23 Pa. Co. Ct R. 520. Traffic; commerce, exchange of goods for other goods, or for money. All wholesale trade, all buying in order to sell again by wholesale, may be reduced to three sorts: The home trade, the foreign trade of eon sumption, and the carrying trade. 2 Smith, Wealth Nat. b. 2, c. 5. —Trade dollar. A silver coin of the United States, of the weight of four hundred and twen- TRABES. Lat In the civil law. A