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Timothy S. Black

Timothy S. Black, born Timothy Seymour Black in 1953, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Timothy White (abduction victim)

Timothy (Timmy) White, kidnapped aged 5 in Ukiah, California, by Kenneth Parnell on 14 February 1980, escaped 1 March 1980 with Steven Stayner, later an LA County sheriff's deputy, died 2010.

Timothy Wilson Spencer

Timothy Wilson Spencer, the Southside Strangler, was an American serial killer who raped and strangled four Virginia women in 1987; the first U.S. murderer convicted and executed on DNA evidence, his case also exonerated David Vasquez.

Timothy Workman

Timothy Workman is a retired English judge who served as Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) of England and Wales and presided over extradition and terrorism cases at Bow Street.

Tino rangatiratanga

Tino rangatiratanga, a Māori term for full chieftainship or absolute authority, is the Article 2 guarantee of te Tiriti o Waitangi over lands, villages, and taonga, distinct from the English text's 'undisturbed possession' and paired with kāwanatanga.

Tiny Rascal Gang

Tiny Rascal Gang (TRG), or Tiny Rascals Gangsters, a Cambodian-American street gang founded in Long Beach, California in the 1980s; blue and grey colors, rival of the Asian Boyz, active nationwide.

Tiszaeszlár affair

The Tiszaeszlár affair was a blood libel trial held in Hungary in 1882 and 1883, in which local Jews accused of murdering servant girl Eszter Solymosi were acquitted.

Title (property)

Title (property) is the legal basis of ownership in property law: the right to own, use, and dispose of property, evidenced by deeds or certificates, held solely, jointly, or by entities, and proven via deeds registration or Torrens title registration.

Title 18 of the United States Code

Title 18 of the United States Code, "Crimes and Criminal Procedure", is the federal criminal code enacted into positive law on June 25, 1948. It covers most federal crimes, criminal procedure, prisons, and sentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3551, though many federal crimes lie in other Code titles.

Title insurance

Title insurance: one-time-premium policy covering past title defects such as forged deeds, liens, and missing heirs. Owner's vs lender's policies, state-regulated pricing (0.5-1% of price), $18.5B industry, and the attorney opinion letter alternative.

Titular bishop

Titular bishop: a consecrated Latin Catholic bishop without a diocese, holding the name of an extinct see (formerly in partibus infidelium, renamed 1882). Held by auxiliary bishops, nuncios, and curia officials; Vatican II granted them full collegial equality.

Tla'amin Nation

Tla'amin Nation, formerly Sliammon First Nation, is a Coast Salish self-governing First Nation near Powell River, BC, whose modern treaty (ʔaʔǰɩnxʷegəs) took effect April 5, 2016, the fourth modern treaty in British Columbia.

TM

TM is a two-letter abbreviation with meanings across many fields: the trademark symbol ™, the element thulium, DNA melting temperature, Turkmenistan's country code, and the Turing machine.

Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026

Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (c. 18), UK Act given Royal Assent 29 April 2026; bans tobacco sales to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009, licenses retailers, and regulates vapes, nicotine products, displays, promotion and smoke-free places.

Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement

The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, also known as the Master Settlement Agreement or Tobacco MSA, is a 1998 settlement between four major US cigarette makers and 46 states.

Tobias Asser

Tobias Asser, also known as Tobias Michael Carel Asser, was a Dutch jurist who convened the Hague conferences on private international law and won the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize.

Toby J. Heytens

Toby J. Heytens, also known as Toby Jay Heytens, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Fourth Circuit since 2021.

Todd Kohlhepp

Todd Kohlhepp, also called the Amazon Review Killer, is a South Carolina real estate broker and convicted serial killer who killed seven people between 2003 and 2016, confessed to the unsolved 2003 Superbike Motorsports quadruple homicide, and is serving seven consecutive life sentences plus 60 years.

Todd M. Hughes

Todd M. Hughes, born Todd Michael Hughes in 1966, is a US federal appellate judge on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit since 2013.

Todd Rokita

Todd Rokita is an American Republican politician who has served as Attorney General of Indiana since 2021, after representing Indiana's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House from 2011 to 2019.

Todd W. Robinson

Todd W. Robinson, also known as Todd Wallace Robinson, is an American district judge for the Southern District of California, appointed by President Trump in 2020.

Toforest Johnson

Toforest Johnson (ToForest Onesha Johnson), Alabama death-row prisoner convicted in 1998 for the 1995 murder of Deputy William Hardy; conviction based on a paid, undisclosed earwitness, with the DA and trial prosecutor supporting a new trial.

Toivo Mikael Kivimäki

Toivo Mikael Kivimäki (1886–1968), Finnish jurist and politician, Prime Minister 1932–1936, envoy in Berlin 1940–1944, convicted in the 1946 war responsibility trial, professor of civil law at Helsinki.

Tole Bi

Tole Bi Alibekuly (Төле би Әлібекұлы, 1663–1756) was a Kazakh judge-statesman and orator, chief biy of the Senior Juz and co-compiler of the Zhety Zhargy steppe law code.

Tolkien Estate

Tolkien Estate: legal entities and family trustees managing J. R. R. Tolkien's literary copyright and trademarks, distinct from film rights sold to United Artists in 1969 and later held by Saul Zaentz and Embracer's Middle-earth Enterprises.

Tom Denning, Baron Denning

Tom Denning, Baron Denning (Alfred Thompson Denning, 1899–1999), English Master of the Rolls 1962–1982 and 'people's judge'; creator of promissory estoppel, the deserted wife's equity, and the Mareva injunction, famed for judicial activism and the 1963 Profumo report.

Tom Hagen

Tom Hagen: fictional consigliere and lawyer of the Corleone crime family in Mario Puzo's The Godfather; Irish-German adopted son of Don Vito, played by Robert Duvall in the first two films, absent from Part III over a salary dispute.

Tom Horn

Tom Horn (c. 1860-1903), American Old West army scout, Pinkerton detective, and Wyoming stock detective, hanged in Cheyenne on November 20, 1903, for the 1901 murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell; his guilt and 1902 trial remain contested.

Tom Ketchum

Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum (1863–1901), American outlaw and train robber of the Ketchum Gang in Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas; hanged at Clayton in 1901 for attempted train robbery, decapitated by the rope.

Tom S. Lee

Tom S. Lee, also known as Tom Stewart Lee, is a retired American judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1984.