KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

TREASON

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TREBLE DAMAGES

ct actions, though his deeds taken severally dc not amount to actual treason. This doctrine is not known in the United States.— High treason. In English law. Treason against the king or sovereign, as distinguished from petit or petty treason, which might formerly be committed against a subject. 4 Bl. Comm. 74, 75: 4 Steph. Comm. 183, 184, note.— Mis prision of treason. See MXSPEISION.— Pet it treason. In English law. The crime com mitted by a wife in killing her husband, # or a. servant his lord or master, or an ecclesiastic his lord or ordinary. 4 Bl. Comm. 75.— Trea son-felony, under the English statute 11 & 12 Vict. c. 12, passed in 1848, is the offense of compassing, devising, etc., to depose her maj esty from the crown; or to levy war in order to intimidate either house of parliament, etc., or to stir up foreigners by any printing or writing to invade the kingdom. This offense is punishable with penal servitude for life, or for any term not less than five years, etc., under statutes 11 & 12 Vict. c. 12, § 3; 20 & 21 Vict. c. 3, § 2; 27 & 28 Vict. c. 47, § 2. By the statute first above mentioned, the gov ernment is enabled to treat as felony many offenses which must formerly have been treated as high treason. Mozley & Whitley. TREASURE. A treasure is a thing hid den or buried in the earth, on which no one can prove his property, and which is discov ered by chance. Civil Code La. art 3423, par. 2. See TBEASUBE-TEOVE. Literally, treas ure found. Money or coin, gold, silver, plate or bullion found hidden in the earth or oth er private place, the owner thereof being un known. 1 Bl. Comm. 295. Called in Latin "thesaurus inventus;" and in Saxon "fyn deringa." See Huthmacher v Harris, 38 Pa. 499, 80 Am. Dec. 502; Livermore v. White, 74 Me. 456, 43 Am. Rep. 600; Sovern v. Yoran, 16 Or. 269, 20 Pac. 100, 8 Am. St Rep. 293. An officer of a public or private corporation, company, or government, charged with the receipt, custody, and dis bursement of its moneys or funds. See State y. Eames, 39 La. Ann. 986, 3 South. 93; Mutual L. Ins. Co. v. Martien, 27 Mont. 437, 71 Pac. 470; Weld v. May, 9 Cush. (Mass.) 189; In re Millward-Cliff Cracker Co.'s Es tate, 161 Pa. 167, 28 Atl. 1072. —Treasurer, lord high. Formerly the chief treasurer of England, who had charge of the moneys in the exchequer, the chancellor of the exchequer being under him. He appointed all revenue officers and escheators, and leased crown lands. The office is obsolete, and his duties are now performed by the lords commis sioners of the treasury. Stim. Gloss. REMEMBRANCER. In English law. He whose charge was to put the lord treasurer and the rest of the judges of the exchequer in remembrance of such things as were called on and dealt in for the sovereign's behoof. There is still one in Scotland. Wharton. TREASURE-TROVE. TREASURER. TREASURER'S TREASONABLE. Having the nature or guilt of treason.

TREASURY. A place or building in which stores of wealth are reposited; partic ularly, a place where the public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is dis bursed to defray the expenses of government Webster. That department of government which is charged with the receipt, custody, and dis bursement {pursuant to appropriations) of the public revenues or funds. —Treasury beneh. In the English house of commons, the first row of seats on the right hand of the speaker is so called, because occu pied by the first lord of the treasury or prin cipal minister of the crown. Brown.— Treas ury chest fund. A fund, in England, origi nating in the unusual balances of certain grants of public money, and which is used for bank ing and loan purposes by the commissioners of the treasury. Its amount was limited by St 24 & 25 Vict c. 127, and has been further reduced to one million pounds, the residue being transferred to the consolidated fund, by St. 36 & 37 Vict c, 56. Wharton.— Treasury note. A note or bill issued by the treasury depart ment by the authority of the United States government, and circulating as money. See Brown v. State, 120 Ala. 342, 25 South. 182. An agreement 'between two or more independent states. Brande. An agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commission ers properly authorized, and solemnly rati fied by the several sovereigns or the supreme power of each state. Webster; Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 5 Pet. 60, 8 L. Ed. 25; Edye v. Robertson, 112 U. S. 580, 5 Sup. Ct 247, 28 L. Ed. 798; Holmes v. Jennison, 14 Pet. 571, 10 L. Ed. 579; U. S. v. Rauscher, 119 U. S. 407, 7 Sup. Ct. 234, 30 L. Ed. 425; Ex parte Ortiz (C. C.) 100 Fed. 962. In private law, "treaty" signifies the dis cussion of terms which immediately precedes the conclusion of a contract or other trans action. A warranty on the sale of goods, to be valid, must be made during the "treaty" preceding the sale. Chit Oont. 419; Sweet —Treaty of peace. A treaty of peace is an agreement or contract made by belligerent pow ers, in which they agree to lay down their arms, and by which they stipulate the condi tions of peace and regulate the manner in which it is to be restored and supported. Vat tel, b. 4, c. 2, § 9. "In conse quence of this article, the trebellanic portion of the civil law—that is to say, the portion of the property of the testator which the insti tuted heir had a right to detain when he was charged with a fidei commissa or fiduciary bequest—is no longer a part of our law." Civ. Code La. art 1520, par. 3. TREATY. In international law. TREBELLANIC PORTION.

TREBLE COSTS. See COSTS.

TREBLE DAMAGES. In practice. Dam ages given by statute in certain cases, con sisting of the single damages found by the