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Tertius is the Latin word for "third", or "concerning the third". The term is used in contract law to refer to an interested third party not privy to a contract.
In the English Common Law system there is no recognition of the principle ius quaesitum tertio (a right in the third party to enforce performance) whereby a third party may enforce a promise due unto it under a contract to which it is not a party. However, in several legal systems, including U.S. and Scots contract law, this does not bar parties to a contract from specifying that a third party is to be a beneficiary of such contract.
Rights, particularly in property, that ordinarily do accrue to a third party are termed jus tertii.
Tertius (also known as Tertiussand) is a sandbank located in the Heligoland Bight off the coast of Dithmarschen belonging to the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Formerly a Hochsand (a sandbank rising above the ordinary high water mark, effectively an island), Tertius has been reduced in elevation by coastal erosion in recent decades. As a result, the sandbank is frequently submerged and devoid of terrestrial vegetation. Recent satellite images show that Tertius is often even awash at low tide. Like all unprotected islands, Hochsände, and sandbanks off the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Tertius is migrating steadily eastwards.
Tertius lies about 10 km west of the popular tourist destination of Büsum in the Meldorf Bay, bordering the tidal channel Piep, which serves as the access waterway to the port of Büsum. To the south lies the island of Trischen, and to the northeast lies the Hochsand of Blauort. According to the Schleswig-Holstein National Park Office in Tönning, Tertius, like Blauort, belongs to the parish of Hedwigenkoog in the district of Dithmarschen. However, the state government of Schleswig-Holstein has not yet officially confirmed and authorised this, so the sandbank technically remains an unorganised location.
Tertius, when not submerged, provides a resting ground for seabirds and seals. Sightseeing tours are sometimes organised from Büsum to observe these animals. Though the sandbank is not part of the highly protected Zone 1 of the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, public access to Tertius is subject to restrictions.
The only man-made structure on the island is a daymark, which serves as an optical navigational aid for ships.
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Usage examples of "tertius".
I could feel Tertius Pella rearranging the load to hide all signs of my entrance.
When they arrived, I was working with the special clay we intended to use as a liner for the fire-box, and while I washed the stuff from my hands and dried them on a rag, Equus entertained Tertius with a description of what we were hoping to achieve with the new kiln.
As we drank the first, deep draught, I examined Tertius Pella again, confirming my original opinion of him.
I returned my attention to Tertius, who was helping himself to more beer.
It would still be better than being flogged to death by Tertius Pella.
They said nothing: had alliances been possible, Tertius might have sided with Primus against Septimus.
For Lord Tertius of Stormhold was writhing back and forth on the bed, his eyes wide, his breathing labored.
But Tertius Tully, the company manager, who was as thin and salty and Yankee as a dried codfish, was to be her Chief Uncle.
On the train she first really talked with the company manager and wet nurse, the Yankee Tertius Tully, and first saw the master carpenter, the electrician and the property man, who would manage local theatre crews: Gene Doric, Wilson Kinloch, and Phil Schoenberg.
Andy and Satori and Tertius Tully and Eldred, the stage manager, were wearily scribbling on papers--papers--papers.
Romeo Company, headed by Ted Gronitz and Tertius Tully, stepped from the elevator into the top story, devoted to Station WXXW, they were in a set from the Follies.
Andy and Tertius Tully were nodding to each other, as who should say that she was good.
Lyle Johnson rushed over to the City Auditorium during a scene in which he did not appear and presented a silver cup to the winner of the Boy Scout Hurdle Contest--a stunt which Andy had approved, though Tertius Tully, the procurer of the other personal appearances, had fretted that the Boy Scouts and their doggone hurdling were nothing but Competition for the Show.
Smiling like her father, patting her shoulder, Tertius Tully laid on the shelf of her dressing-table a fat little envelope with the first money she had ever earned in the theatre.
Iris went dancing, with Lyle Johnson or Jeff Hoy or Douglas Fry, while Bethel solemnly sat at a table way back, with Doc Keezer and Tertius Tully, and ate hash while they went pretty thoroughly into the topic of comparative box-office receipts during the past sixteen years.