Noun | 1. | time - an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip" Synonyms: clip |
2. | time - an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time" | |
3. | time - a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something; "take time to smell the roses"; "I didn't have time to finish"; "it took more than half my time" | |
4. | time - a suitable moment; "it is time to go" | |
5. | time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past | |
6. | time - the time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock" Synonyms: clock time | |
7. | time - the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event Synonyms: fourth dimension | |
8. | time - a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together" | |
9. | time - rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time | |
10. | time - the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail" Synonyms: prison term, sentence | |
Verb | 1. | time - measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners" Synonyms: clock |
2. | time - assign a time for an activity or event; "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene" | |
3. | time - set the speed, duration, or execution of; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely" | |
4. | time - regulate or set the time of; "time the clock" | |
5. | time - adjust so that a force is applied an an action occurs at the desired time; "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely" |
TIME, contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided
into years, months. days, (q.v.) hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also
divided into day and night. (q.v.)
2. Time is frequently of the essence of contracts and crimes, and
sometimes it is altogether immaterial.
3. Lapse of time alone is often presumptive evidence of facts which are
otherwise unknown; an uninterrupted enjoyment of certain rights for twenty
or twenty-one years, is evidence that the party enjoying them is legally
entitled to them; after such a length of time, the law presumes payment of a
bond or other specialty. 10 S. & R. 63, 383; 3 S. & R. 493; 6 Munf. R. 532;
2 Cranch, R. 180; 7 Wheat. R. 535; 2 W. C. C R. 323; 4 John. R. 202; 7 John'
R. 556; 5 Conn. 1; 3 Day 289; 1 McCord 145; 1 Bay, 482; 7 Wend. 94; 5 Vern.
236.
4. In the computation of time, it is laid down generally, that where
the computation is to be made from an act done, the day when such act was
done is included. Dougl. 463. But it will be excluded whenever such
exclusion, will prevent a forfeiture. 4 Greenl. 298. Sed vide 15 Ves. 248; 1
Ball & B. 196. In general, one day is taken inclusively and the other
exclusively. 2 Browne; Rep. 18. Vide Chitt. Bl. 140 n. 2; 2 Evans, Poth. 50;
13 Vin. Abr. 52, 499; 15 Vin. Ab. 554; 20 Vin. Ab. 266; Com. Dig. Temps; 1
Rop. Legacy, 518; 2 Suppl. to Ves. jr. 229; Graham's Pract. 185; 1 Fonb.
Equity, 430; Wright, R. 580; 7 John. R. 476; 1 Bailey, R. 89; Coxe, Rep.
363; 1 Marsh. Keny. Rep. 321; 3 Marsh. Keny. Rep. 448; 3 Bibb, R. 330; 6
Munf. R. 394; vide Computation.
TIME, pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading;
the rules are different, in different actions.
2.-1. Impersonal actions, the pleadings must allege the time; that is,
the day, month and year when each traversable fact occurred; and when there
is occasion to mention a continuous act, the period of its duration ought to
be shown. The necessity of laying a time extends to traversable facts only;
time is generally considered immaterial, and any time may be assigned to a
given fact. This option, however, is subject to certain restrictions. 1st.
Time should be laid under a videlicit, or the party pleading it will be
required to, prove it strictly. 2d. The time laid should not be
intrinsically impossible, or inconsistent with the fact to which it relates.
3d. There are some instances in which time forms a material point in the
merits of the case; and, in these instances, if a traverse be taken, the
time laid is of the substance of the issue, and must be strictly proved.
With respect to all facts of this description; they must be truly stated, at
the peril of a failure for variance; Cowp. 671: and here a videlicit will
give no help. Id. 6 T. R 463; 5 Taunt. 2; 4 Serg. & Rawle, 576; 7 Serg. &
Rawle, 405. Where the time needs not to be truly stated, (as is generally
the case,) it is subject to a rule of the same nature with one that applies
to venues in transitory matters, namely, that the plea and subsequent
pleadings should follow the day alleged in the writ or declaration; and if
in these cases no time at all be laid, the omission is aided after verdict
or judgment by confession or default, by operation of the statute of
jeofails. But where, in the plea or subsequent pleadings, the time happens
to be material, it must be alleged, and there the pleader may be allowed to
depart from the day in the writ and declaration.
3.-2. In real or mixed actions, there is no necessity for alleging any
particular day in the declaration. 3 Bl. Com. App. No. 1, Sec. 6; Lawes' Pl.
App. 212; 3 Chit. Pl. 620-635; Cro. Jac. 311; Yelv. 182 a, note; 2 Chitt.
Pl. 396, n. r; Gould, Pl. c. 3, Sec. 99, 100; Steph. Pl. 314; Com. Dig.
Pleader, C 19.
4.-3. In criminal pleadings, it is requisite, generally, to show both
the day and the year on which the offence was committed; but the indictment
will be good, if the day and year can be collected from the whole statement,
though they be not expressly averred. Com. Dig. Indictm. G 2; 5 Serg. &
Rawle, 315. Although it be necessary that a day certain should be laid in
the indictment, the prosecutor may give evidence, of an offence committed,
on any other day, previous to the finding of the indictment. 5 Serg. &
Rawle, 316; Arch. Cr. Pl. 95; 1 Phil Evid. 203; 9 East, Rep. 157. This rule,
however, does not authorize the laying of a day subsequent to the trial.
Addis. R. 36. See generally Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.