3an error of fact or law, after the term at which rendered, unless for clerical mistakes; nor can any change be made which may substantially affect the decision.¹ Apply, respectively, to the places of beginning and ending of ways, of risks in marine insurance, to transfers of title, etc.¹ See AT; FROM; TO. 2. An estate for years: since its existence Courts of common law had power to vacate judgis limited, begins and ends. ments during the term in which they were rendered, and the rule is still the same in all courts exercising jurisdiction in common-law cases. A term continues until the call of the next succeeding term, unless previously adjourned sine die.2 Judgments are considered as rendered on the first day of the term. There is a fiction that a term consists of but one day. This is tolerated for the purposes of justice. To antedate the judicial rejection of a claim, so as to give effect to a grant, does not promote the ends of justice.3 The time of a term's commencing is fixed by statute, and its end by the final adjournment of the court for that term. After the term has ended, all final judgments and decrees of the court pass beyond its control, unless steps be taken during that term, by motion or otherwise, to set aside, modify, or correct them; and if errors exist they can be corrected only by such proceeding, by writ of error or appeal, as may be allowed in the court which by law can review the decision. To this rule is the one exception of error coram nobis, q. v. When a cause is in progress the trial is not to be discontinued by the arrival of a new term. See CONTINUANCE, 2; NEXT; SESSION, 1; VACATION. 5. The period prescribed for holding an office. The expression "term of office" uniformly designates a fixed and definite period of time. See OFFICE, 2; TENURE. In old English law, a landroll, or survey of lands, containing the number of acres, tenants' names, etc.8 Terminus a quo. The end from which; the starting point; the beginning. Termiporal possessions of the church. Also, a detailed statement or inventory of the temnes ad quem. The end to which; the point of ending; termination. 1 See 2 Bl. Com. 504; 4 Kent, 413. 2 [2 Bl. Com. 144: Coke, Litt. 46. 32 Bl. Com. 109; 17 How. 145; Baldw. 129; 57 Cal. 497; 1 Morgan's Louisiana & Texas R. &c. Co. v. Texas 2 Hill (N. Y.), 500. Central R. Co., 32 F. R. 530 (1887), cases, Harlan, J. Exp. Lange, 18 Wall. 192 (1873), cases, Clifford, J. • Newhall v. Sanger, 92 U. S. 766 (1875), cases. • Bronson v. Schulten, 104 U. S. 415 (1881), cases, Miller, J.; Phillips v. Negley, 117 id. 672-75 (1886), cases. R. S. § 746. See 2 Bl. Com. 91, 328. Carpenter v. Koons, 20 Pa. 226 (1852), Black, C. J.; Nailer v. Stanley, 10 S. & R. 453 (1823); 13 W. N. C. 502; 31 Leg. Int. 257; 1 Johns. Ch. 447; 5 id. 235. • See Cahoon v. Hollenbeck, 16 S. & R. 424 (1826); Colwell v. Easley, 83 Pa. 31 (1876); Penn. Act 1 June, • Speer v. Crawford, 3 Metc. *213 (Ky., 1860); People 1887. v. Brundage, 78 N. Y. 407 (1879), Church, C. J. Gracie v. Marine Ins. Co.; 8 Cranch, 82 (1814), Marshall, C. J. F.: L. L. terrarius liber, land book. • See Tomlins, Cowell, Law Dicts. In Termes de la Ley (1721) spelled "terrar."