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Home Dictionary Name: terr stopterre tenant
terre tenant [Anglo-French terre tenaunt freeholder, from Old French terre land + tenant holding, from present participle of tenir to hold] : one in actual possession of land ;specif : one who purchases land after a lien of mortgage or judgment has attached used chiefly in the law of Pennsylvania ...
stop
stop stopped stop·ping vt 1 : to cause to halt [stopped payment] 2 : to subject to a legal stop vi : to cease activity or motion n : an act or instance of stopping ;specif : a temporary detention that constitutes a limited seizure of a person for the purpose of inquiry or investigation and that must be based on reasonable suspicion see also terry stop compare arrest ...
Terry stop
Terry stop [from Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), case in which the right of police to stop and question a suspect was first discussed] : a stop and limited search of a person for weapons justified by a police officer's reasonable conclusion that a crime is being or about to be committed by a person who may be armed and whose responses to questioning do not dispel the officer's fear of danger to the officer or to others compare reasonable suspicion ...
Stop Order
Stop Order. If any person entitled, in expectancy or otherwise, to any share of any stocks or funds, standing in the name of the Paymaster-General (formerly the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery: see (English) Chancery Funds Act, 1872) to the general credit of any cause, or to the account of any class or classes of persons, assign his interest in such stock or funds, the assignee (although not a party to the cause in which the fund is standing) may apply by summons for a stop order to prevent the transfer or payment of such tock or funds, or any part thereof, without notice to him. And a person having a lien on a fund in Court may obtain a stop order. See (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XLVI.; and consult Dan. Ch. Pr.; Seton on Judgments....
Amittere legem terr', or liberam legem
Amittere legem terr', or liberam legem, to lose the liberty of being sworn in any Court. but by 6 & 7 Vict. c. 85, persons who were previously excluded from giving evidence by incapacity arising from crime or interest are made competent witnesses, their credibility being left to the jury. A person outlawed was (see OUTLAW) said to lose his law; i.e., to be put without its protection, so that he could not sue, although he could be sued, Glanvil, lib. ii....
Cauda terr'
Cauda terr', land's end, or the bottom of a ridge in arable and...
Comba terr'
Comba terr' [fr. cumbe, Sax.; kum, Br.; comb, Eng.], a valley or piece of low ground between two hills, Ken. Glos...
Cursones terr'
Cursones terr', ridges of land....
Curtiles terr'
Curtiles terr', court lands, Spel. On Feuds, c. 5....
Dena terr'
Dena terr', a hallow place between two hills; a little portion of woody ground; a coppice...
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