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Theft
another's personal property with intent of depriving the true owner of it; larceny 2 Broadly, any act or instance of stealing including larceny, burglary, embezzle-ment and false pretenses, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1487.
Then
according to the context. If this word is used twice in the same sentence construed in the first instance, it points to the event and in the second as an adverb of time, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary. The
Torture
was , however, frequently the practice to torture by virtue of Royal Warrant, a warrant of 1640, for instance (Jardine, p. 108), directing the Lieutenant of the Tower 'to cause John Archer to be carried to the
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Trespass
person or tangible and corporeal property of the plaintiff. Of actual violence an assault and battery is an instance; of implied, a peaceable but wrongful enter upon the plaintiff's lands, Steph. Plead., 7th Edn., 11, 37, 154.
Trespasser
of the owner. If one goes into posse-ssion of the property of another with invitation or permission for instance to a shop or cinema theatre, or marriage hall to celebrate a marriage his initial entry is lawful
Trial de novo
both the questions of law and fact, conducted as if there had been no trial in the first instance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1511.
Trust
proposed by the trust, unless it is in contravention of the public policy of the law, as, for instance, seeking to create a perpetuity, or accumulating annual income be-yond the statutory limits. By the (English) Trustee Act,
Unpaid seller
this Chapter, the term 'seller' includes any person who is in the position of a seller, as, for instance, an agent of the seller to whom the bill of finding has been endorsed, or a consignor or
Waiver
an occasion to enforce a legal right whereby the right to enforce the same is lost; a common instance of this is where a landlord waives a forfeiture of a lease by receiving rent, or distraining for
Wiretap
Wiretap, means an act or instance of wiretapping, Whack v. State, 615 A 2d 1226 (1992).
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