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Territorial treaties
Territorial treaties are treaties by which states settle sovereign control over land, whether by fixing a boundary, ceding territory, or confirming an existing frontier; cession requires the consent of both states.
Territorial waters
Territorial waters (the territorial sea) are the belt of sea adjacent to a coastal state, up to 12 nautical miles from baselines under UNCLOS, over which the state holds sovereignty including airspace and seabed, limited by the right of innocent passage, with a 24-nautical-mile contiguous zone beyond.
Territory
Territory: the geographical domain of a state's legal jurisdiction and the spatial basis of sovereignty in international law, bounded by borders since Westphalia, acquired by conquest, cession, secession, or terra nullius, and critiqued for mismatch with nations.
Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025
Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, or Martyn's Law, UK Act (c. 10, Royal Assent 3 April 2025) requiring public premises and events to prepare for terrorist attacks; standard tier 200+, enhanced tier 800+, regulated by the SIA.
Terrorism Confinement Center
CECOT (Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo), the Terrorism Confinement Center, is El Salvador's maximum-security mega-prison in Tecoluca, opened January 31, 2023 under Bukele's state of exception, with a stated 40,000 capacity and documented human rights abuses.
Terrorism suppression conventions
Terrorism suppression conventions are a network of 16 sectoral treaties, dating from 1963, that require states to criminalize hijacking, bombing, hostage-taking, and terrorist financing and to extradite or prosecute offenders.
Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act
The Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, commonly known as TADA, was an Indian law against terrorist and disruptive activities, allowed to lapse in May 1995.
Terrorist Financing Convention
Terrorist Financing Convention (International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism): 1999 UN treaty criminalizing providing or collecting funds for terrorist acts; adopted without vote, in force 10 April 2002, 191 parties.
Terry A. Doughty
Terry Alvin Doughty, born 1959, is a United States district judge in Louisiana since 2018, appointed by Trump, known for the 2023 Missouri v. Biden social media ruling.
Terry F. Moorer
Terry F. Moorer, born Terry Fitzgerald Moorer, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Alabama since 2018, nominated by President Trump.
Terry J. Hatter, Jr.
Terry J. Hatter, Jr. (born 1933) is a senior United States district judge of the Central District of California, appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.
Terry L. Wooten
Terry L. Wooten, born 1954, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in South Carolina since 2019, appointed by George W. Bush in 2001.
Terry Peder Rasmussen
Terry Peder Rasmussen (1943–2010), alias Bob Evans, was an American serial killer linked to the Bear Brook (Allenstown Four) murders and Eunsoon Jun's killing; identified in 2017 via genetic genealogy; final victim Rea Rasmussen named in 2025.
Terry R. Means
Terry R. Means (born 1948) is an American jurist and senior United States district judge of the Northern District of Texas, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1991.
Terry stop
Terry stop, also called stop and frisk, is a brief investigative police detention based on reasonable suspicion, less than probable cause, under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), with a limited weapons frisk when the person is believed armed and dangerous.
Terry v. Ohio
Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), the stop-and-frisk case: the Supreme Court held police may stop and pat down a person on reasonable, articulable suspicion of crime and danger, without probable cause.
Test Claimants in the Franked Investment Income Group Litigation v IRC
Test Claimants in the Franked Investment Income Group Litigation v IRC (FII GLO, 2003) is English group litigation by BAT, Ford and GKN group companies for restitution of ACT and Case V tax on foreign dividends held incompatible with EU law.
Tex Watson
Tex Watson (Charles Denton Watson), Manson Family member who led the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, convicted of seven counts of first-degree murder in 1971, death sentence commuted to life in 1972, author of Will You Die For Me?
Texarkana Moonlight Murders
Texarkana Moonlight Murders: unsolved 1946 attacks by the Phantom Killer near Texarkana, Arkansas-Texas; five killed, three wounded; prime suspect Youell Swinney never prosecuted.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), formerly the Texas Department of Corrections, is the Texas state agency managing adult prisons, parole, and probation from Huntsville, operating 104 prison facilities.
Texas Killing Fields
Texas Killing Fields: area along Interstate 45 between Houston and Galveston, centered on a Calder Road oil field in League City where four women were found 1984-1991; over 30 total victims, first conviction in 2026.
Texas Senate
Texas Senate: upper chamber of the Texas Legislature, 31 senators in four-year staggered terms from single-member districts, presided over by the lieutenant governor, meeting in 140-day biennial sessions.
Texas Senate Bill 20
Texas Senate Bill 20 (2025, 89th Legislature, by Senator Pete Flores) is a Texas law creating Penal Code 43.235, a felony for possessing or promoting obscene visual material appearing to depict a child, including cartoons and AI-generated images, effective September 1, 2025.
Texas Seven
The Texas Seven were seven inmates who escaped the Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, on December 13, 2000, the state's largest prison break, then killed Irving officer Aubrey Hawkins; four were executed, two remain.
Texas Syndicate
Texas Syndicate (TS), prison gang founded early 1970s in California by Texas-born Mexican-American inmates; spread to Texas prisons and streets, tied to Los Zetas and the Cardenas-Guillen DTO, active in drug trafficking.
Texas v. Johnson
Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled 5-4 that flag burning is symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment, striking down Texas's venerated-object desecration statute and, via United States v. Eichman, the 1989 federal Flag Protection Act.
Texas v. White
Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1869), the Supreme Court decision by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase holding unilateral state secession unconstitutional in an 'indestructible Union,' arising from Civil War bond recovery, with exceptions for revolution or consent of the States.
Thaler v. Perlmutter
Thaler v. Perlmutter is a US copyright case in which Stephen Thaler's attempt to register an AI-generated image failed, ending when the Supreme Court declined review in 2026.
The Big Six (Ghana)
The Big Six (Ghana): six United Gold Coast Convention leaders, including Kwame Nkrumah and J.B. Danquah, detained after the 1948 Accra riots, later honored on cedi notes and Founders' Day.
The Bund (外滩)
The Bund (外滩, Waitan) is Shanghai's Huangpu River waterfront, its name carried by East India Company merchant networks; a preserved 30-foot towpath became the treaty port's financial district, with HSBC (1923), Customs House (1927), Peace Hotel (1929) and Bank of China (1937).