TRUSS, a bundle, or certain quantity of hay, straw, :1/4c. A truss of hay is to contain fifty-six pounds, or half an hun dred weight thirty-six trusses make a load. In June and August the truss is to weigh shay pounds, on forfeiture of eighteen shillings per truss.
Tauss, in naval affairs, a machine em ployed to pull a lower yard close to its mast, and retain it firmly in that poSition : it is rarely employed except in flying top gallant ,sails. it is a ring or traveller which encircles the mast, and has a rope fastened 'to its after part, . I coding down 'ward to the top or decks ; by means of which the truss may be straitened or slackened at pleasure.
Tauss ,is also usedfor a sort of bandage or ligature, made of steel, or the like matter, wherewith to keep up the parts, in thosewho have hernias, or rupfares. Bp TRUST„ is a rightto receive profits of land, to dispose of the land in equi ty; and one' holding the possessitin, and disposing thereof at his will and plesSura, are signs of trusts A trust is but a new name given to a% use, and invented to evade the statute of us'es. ty statute 29 Charles 11. c. 3, all declar"ation or creation of trusts shall be manifested by some writ ing signed by th,e party, or.by his last will
in writing, or ernahall be void. And by aectimi 9 of the same act, assignmenta of trusts shall be in writing, signed bY the party assigning the same, otc.by his last will, or else shall be of co effect.
By 29 'Charles 11. all-declarations of trusts were to be made in writing : but in the said act there is'a saving 'with -re gard to trusts resulti implication 'of law, which are left gn the footing where on they stood before the act ; bare declaration by parol before the aFt would prevent any resulting trust.
If a man purchase lands in another's name, and pay the money, it will be a trust for him that paid the money, thnii gh there be no deed made declirting the trust thereof; for the statute of frauds perjuries extends not to trusts liaised by operations of law.
TUB, match, in naval affairs ; the half of a cask, having notches sawn in its edges, in which the lighted matches are placed during action, the bottom being covered with water to extinguish any sparks which may fall from the match.