| Noun | 1. | title - a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with; "Title 8 provided federal help for schools" Synonyms: statute title, rubric |
| 2. | title - the name of a work of art or literary composition etc.; "he looked for books with the word `jazz' in the title"; "he refused to give titles to his paintings"; "I can never remember movie titles" | |
| 3. | title - a general or descriptive heading for a section of a written work; "the novel had chapter titles" | |
| 4. | title - the status of being a champion; "he held the title for two years" Synonyms: championship | |
| 5. | title - a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it; "he signed the deed"; "he kept the title to his car in the glove compartment" Synonyms: deed of conveyance, deed | |
| 6. | title - an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. Mr. or General; "the professor didn't like his friends to use his formal title" Synonyms: title of respect | |
| 7. | title - an established or recognized right; "a strong legal claim to the property"; "he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate"; "he staked his claim" Synonyms: claim | |
| 8. | title - (usually plural) written material introduced into a movie or TV show to give credits or represent dialogue or explain an action; "the titles go by faster than I can read" | |
| 9. | title - an appellation signifying nobility; "`your majesty' is the appropriate title to use in addressing a king" | |
| 10. | title - an informal right to something; "his claim on her attentions"; "his title to fame" Synonyms: claim | |
| Verb | 1. | title - give a title to Synonyms: entitle |
| 2. | title - designate by an identifying term; "They styled their nation `The Confederate States'" Synonyms: style |
TITLE, legislation That part of an act of the legislature by which it is
known, and distinguished from other acts the name of the act.
2. A practice has prevailed of late years to crowd into the same act a
mass of heterogeneous matter, so that it is almost impossible to describe,
or even to allude to it in the title of the act. This practice has rendered
the title of little importance, yet, in some cases, it is material in the
construction of an act. 7 East, R. 132, 134; 2 Cranch, 386. See Lord Raym.
77; Hard. 324; Barr. on the Stat. 499, n.
TITLE, persons. Titles are distinctions by which a person is known.
2. The constitution of the United States forbids the tyrant by the
United States, or any state of any title of nobility. (q.v.) Titles are
bestowed by courtesy on certain officers; the president of the United States
sometimes receives the title of excellency; judges and members of congress
that of honorable; and members of the bar and justices of the peace are
called esquires. Cooper's, Justinian, 416'; Brackenridge's Law Miscell.
Index, h.t.
3. Titles are assumed by foreign princes, and, among their subjects
they may exact these marks of honor, but in their intercourse with foreign
nations they are not entitled to them as a matter of right. Wheat. Intern.
Law, pt. 2, c. 3, Sec. 6.
TITLE, literature. The particular division of a subject, as a law, a book, and the like; for example, Digest, book 1, title 2; for the law relating to bills of exchange, see Bacon's Abridgment, title Merchant.
TITLE, rights. The name of a newspaper a book, and the like.
2. The owner of a newspaper, having particular title, has a right to
such title, an an injunction will lie to prevent its use un lawfully by
another. 8 Paige, 75. See Pardess. n. 170.
TITLE, pleading, rights. The right of action which the plaintiff has; the declaration must show the plaintiff's title, and if such title be not shown in that instrument, the defect cannot be cured by any of the future pleadings. Bac. Ab. Pleas, &c. B 1.
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