![]() ![]() In painting, the greatest beauties cannot be always expressed for want of terms.Ĩ. In grammar, a word or expression that which fixes or determines ideas. In universities and colleges, the time during which instruction is regularly given to students, who are obliged by the statutes and laws of the institution to attend to the recitations, lectures and other exercises.ħ. In the United States, the terms to be observed by the tribunals of justice, are prescribed by the statutes of congress and of the several states.Ħ. These terms are observed by the courts of king's bench, the common pleas and exchequer, but not by the parliament, the chancery or by inferior courts. In England,there are four terms in the year Hilary term, from January 23d to February 12th Easter term, from Wednesday, fortnight after Easter, to the Monday next after Ascension day Trinity term, from Friday next after Trinity Sunday to the Wednesday, fortnight after and Michaelmas term, from November 6th to the 28th. In law, the time in which a court is held or open for the trial of causes. In law, the limitation of an estate or rather the whole time or duration of an estate as a lease for the term of life, for the term of three lives, for the term of twenty one years.ĥ. A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.Ĥ. In geometry, a point or line that limits. ![]() The time for which any thing lasts any limited time as the term of five years the term of life.ģ. A limit a bound or boundary the extremity of any thing that which limits its extent.Ĭorruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms or boundaries.Ģ. ![]()
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