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A synopsis or condensed statement, bringing together numerous items or details so as to be comprehended in a single view; as genealogical tables, exhibiting the names and relationships of all the persons

Lat. Having personally touched the holy Gospel. Cro. Eliz. 105.The description of a corporal oath.

Tax or toll gatherers; mentioned by Chaucer.

In old English law. A heap; a liay-mow, or hay-stack. Focnum in tassis, hay In stacks. Reg. Orig. 90.

In old English law. A royalty or privilege granted, by royal charter, to a lord of a manor, for the having, restraining, and judging of bondmen and villeins, with their children, goods,

An Anglo-Saxon charter of land. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 1, p. 10.

is the relation of a tenant to the land which he holds. Hence it signifies (1) the estate of a tenant, as in the expressions “joint tenancy,” “tenancy in common ;” (2)

The number of ten men, which number, in the time of the Saxons, was called a “decennary;” and ten decennaries made what was called a “hundred.” Also a duty or tribute paid

Terms of the law. The name of a lexicon of the law French words and other technicalities of legal language in old times.

He who is literally in the occupation or possession of the land, as distinguished from the owner out of possession. But, in a more technical sense, the person who is seised of

Lat. In the civil law. A testament; a will, or last will. In old English law. A testament or will; a disposition of property made in con- templation of death. Bract, fol.

In old English law. The Rochester text. An ancient manuscript containing many of the Saxon laws, and the rights, customs, tenures, etc., of the church of Rochester, drawn up by Ernulph, bishop

In surveying, and in descriptions of land by courses and distances, this word, preceding each course given, imports that the following course is continuous with the one before it Flagg v. Mason,

By the laws of St. Edward the Confessor, if any man lay a third night in an inn, he was called a “third-night-awn-hinde,” and his host was answerable for him if he

Vassals, but not of the lowest degree; those who held lands of the chief lord.

To bind. “The parson Is not tied to find the parish clerk.” 1 Leon. 94.

is a custom regulating the manner in which tin is obtained from waste-land, or land which has formerly been waste-land, within certain districts in Corn- wall and Devon. The custom is described

In Roman law. A proper name, frequently used in designating an indefinite or fictitious person, or a person referred to by way of illustration. “Titius” and “Seius,” in this use, correspond to

A prison; a customhouse ; an exchange; also the place where goods are weighed. Wharton.

Lat In old English law. A shaving, or polling; the having the crown of the head shaven; tonsure. One of the peculiar badges of a clerk or clergyman.