KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

TRINITY SITTINGS

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TROVER,

TRITAVUS. Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandfather's great-grandfather; the male ascendant in the sixth degree. TRITHING. In Saxon law. One of the territorial divisions of England, being the third part of a county, and comprising three or more hundreds. Within the trithing there was a court held (called "trithing-mote") which resembled the court-leet, but was in ferior to the county court. —Trithing-mote. The court held for a trith ing or riding.—Trithing-reeve. The officer who superintended a trithing or riding. TRIUMVIR. Lat In old English law. A trithing man or constable of three hun dred. Cowell. TRIUMVIRI CAPITALES. Lat In Roman law. Officers who had charge of the prison, through whose intervention punish ments were inflicted. They had eight lictors to execute their orders. Vicat Voc. Jur. 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 words of his office, viz., do, dico, addico. Cal vin. Otherwise called "dies fasti." 3 Bl. Comm. 424, and note t*. TRIVIAL. Trifling; inconsiderable; of small worth or importance. In equity, a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as be ing below the dignity of the court. 4 Bouv. Inst. no. 4237. TRONAGE. In English law. A cus tomary duty or toll for weighing wool; so called because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12. TRONATOR. A weigher of wool. Co well. TROPHY MONEY. Money formerly col lected and raised in London, and the sev eral counties of England, towards providing harness and maintenance for the militia, etc. TROVER. In common-law practice, the action of trover (or trover and conversion) is a species of action on the case, and origi nally lay for the recovery of damages against a person who had found another's goods and wrongfully converted them to his own use. Subsequently the allegation of the loss of the goods by the plaintiff and the finding of them by the defendant was merely fictitious, and the action became the remedy for any wrongful interference with or detention of the goods of another. 3 Steph. Comm. 425. Sweet See Burnham v. Pidcock, J53 Misc. Rep. 65, 66 N. Y. Supp. 806; Larson v Daw-

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, commencing 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 the 22d day of May, and end ing on the 12th of June. 3 Steph. Comm. 562. TRINITJMGEIiDUM. In old European 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. Lat 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,) arcis constructio, (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." Moz ley & Whitley. TRIPARTITE. In conveyancing. Of three parts; a term applied to an indenture 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. Lat. In the civil law. The reply of the plaintiff to the rejoinder of the defendant. It corresponds to the sur rejoinder of common law. Inst 4, 14; Bract. 1. 5, t 5, c. 1. TRISTRIS. In old forest law. A free dom from the duty of attending the lord of a forest when engaged in the chase. Spel man. TRITAVIA. Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandmother's great-grandmother; the female ascendant in the sixth degree.