Category: T

This phrase means the same as an attractive nuisance doctrine.

Dat. In the civil law. Base; mean ; vile ; disgraceful; Infamous ; unlawful. Applied both to things and persons. Calvin.

Hotel room service where a room is freshened up and beds are turned down when guests are away from the room.

Everything done contrary to justice, honesty, modesty, or good morals is said to be done with turpitude.

This phrase means that a person whose estate is divested by usurpation cannot expel the possessor by mere entry, but must have recourse to an action, either possessory or droitural. Mozley & Whitley.

This phrase is used to describe the violation of decent, moral and honest behaviour and an act of depravity or vileness.

See State’s evidence.

Lat. Baseness; infamy; immorality; turpitude. Tuta est custodia quae sibimet cre- ditur. Ilob. 340. That guardianship is secure which is intrusted to itself alone.

A person, under the superintendence of a jailer, who has the charge of the keys of the prison, for the purpose of opening and fastening the doors.

Lat. In the civil law. Tutelage: that species of guardianship which continued to the age of puberty; the guardian being called “tutor,” and the ward, “pu- pillus.” 1 Dom. Civil Law, b. 2, tit. 1, p. 260.