wex definitions

Trademark registration involves the establishment of rights in a mark based on legitimate use of the mark in commerce under the Lanham Act.

A trademark search is an investigation usually conducted by the party that intends to register and use a new trademark. The purpose of the investigation is to establish if there are any existing trademarks already registered or in use by its trademark owners that may be similar to the new trademark or used on related products or for related services.

Trafficking is the illegal transporting of people or illegal goods with the intent of transacting of exploiting. 

See: drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and human trafficking. 

In business law, a transaction is an event associated with business dealings conducted between two or more parties that involve the formation and performance of an obligation or contract.

Transcarceration is the transfer of prisoners or persons institutionalized for mental illness from one facility to another of the same type. Through transcarceration, prisoners are moved from one prison to another, and those institutionalized due to mental illness are moved from one psychiatric facility to another. 

A transcript of a court record is the verbatim, official or certified record of all proceedings that transpired in the trial court. The transcript must also be taken by a court reporter. 

Transfer is an act by virtue of which title of a property is voluntarily conveyed from one person to another.

A transfer agent is an agent, usually a commercial bank or trust company, appointed by a corporation to keep legal records of all the corporation's stockholders.

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Transfer in contemplation of death means that a person transfers property to others when they believe they are about to die. If the person later recovers, the transfer may be revoked. It is also referred to as a gift causa mortis.

Transfer-on-death (TOD) refers to named beneficiaries that receive assets at the death of the property owner without the need for probate, facilitating the executor's disposition of the property owner's assets after their death.