TRIENNIAL PRESCRIPTION, in the law of Scotland, is a limit of three years Imposed on all creditors to bring their actions to recover a certain class of debts and damages—such as actions to recover merchants' accounts, servants' wages, house-rents (where the lease is verbal), debts due to tradesmen, lawyers, and doctors. So actions to recover damages for wrongous imprisonment must be brought within three years.
or Tniksrk (Slay. Terst), the most important sea-port of the Austrian mon archy, and the most considerable trading town on the Adriatic, stands at the kead of the gulf of Triest, an arm of the gulf of Venice, 90 in. s.w. of Laibach, on the Vienna and Triest railway. It is an imperial free town, and attached and belonging to it is a terri tory 46 sq.m. in extent, consisting of the slopes of the Triestine). Karst, which decline somewhat abruptly toward the Adriatic shore. The city of Triest, in which the popu lation of the district is almost wholly massed, the other places being only small villages, consists of the old town, the new town, or Tlteresienstadt, and the two suburbs, Josef. stadt and Franzenstadt. The old town, built on the slope of a steep hill, surmounted by a castle, forms about a fourth of the whole city, and is distinguished by its narrow streets and black walls. It contains the cathedral, an early Byzantine edifice of uncer tain date, into the walls of which stones bearing Roman inscriptions and carving have been built, and the tower of which is said to rest on the foundation of it temple or Jupi ter. The new town, with broad streets built in regular parallelograms and handsome houses, occupies the plain that fronts the sea. Between these two divisions runs the Corso, the chief thoroughfare of the city. The Tergesteum, in the new town, is a splen
did modern edifice, built in 1842, and containing a bazaar, a grand concert and ball room, exchange and reading rooms, and the offices of the Austrian Lloyd's, the largest estab lishment in Europe for sea steamers. To the u., on the sea-shore, is the new and mag nificent lazaretto, with a harbor in which GO vessels can perform quarantine at once. There are numerous churches for Greeks, Jews, Roman Catholics, and Protestants. The population includes Germans, Americans, Italians, Greeks, Jews, Armenians, thins, etc. ; but Italian is the prevailing language. Triest is a free port; and the har bor, the entrance to which is uninterrupted by islands or sandbanks, is well protected. The manufactures carried on here are very extensive. There are upward of 40 estaUish moms for ship-building, 3 great soap-works, and 7 rope-works. Rosoglio, white lead, and leather are manufactured, and wax-bleaching is carried on. About 12,500 vessels, with a tonnage Qf 1,000,000, enter and clear the port annually. The value of the imports is about £14,000,000; that of exports, £10,000,000. Pop. in '69, 70,274; of the city with the surrounding district of Triest, about 125,000.
Triest, the ancient Tergeste or Tergestum, was of importance under the Romans, and first receives historical mention 51 B.C., when it was overrun and plundered by neigh boring tribes. It was much improved by Augustus; and, in 1382, finally passed into the hands of Austria. It owes its prosperity chiefly to the emperor Charles VI., who constituted it a free port, and to Maria Theresa. Since the year 1816, Triest has borne the title of " the most loyal of towns."