Category: T

Lat. In practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff to a writ, when it came into his hands too late to be executed before the return-day.

In old English practice. Taxation of costs.

A telegraphic dispatch ; a message sent by telegraph.

Lat. In the time of. Thus, the volume called “Cases tempore Ilolt” is a collection of cases adjudged in the king’s bench during the time of Lord Holt Wall. Rep. 398.

The Latin name for that clause iu a bond in which the obligor expresses that he is “held and firmly bound” to the obligee, his heirs, etc.

In Scotch law. A widow that possesses the third part of her husband’s land, as her legal jointure. 1 Kames, Eq. pref.

In old English law. A kind of tax or charge on land; a boon or duty of plowing, reaping, etc. Cowell.

Testamenta cum duo inter se pngnanr tia rcperiuntur, ultimum ratum est; sie est, cum duo inter se pugnantia reperi- untur in eodem testamento. Co. Litt. 112. When two conflicting wills are found,

evidence. Testimony is the evidence given by witnesses. Evidence is whatever may be given to the jury as tending to prove a case. It includes the testimony of witnesses, documents, admissions of

In Saxon law. The power of having jurisdiction over uaifs or villeins, with their suits or offspring, lauds, goods, and chattels. Co. Litt 110a.

persons, things, and actions. Civ. Code La. art. 448 Such permanent objects, not being persons, as are sensible, or perceptible through the senses. Aust. Jur.

In criminal law. A menace; a declaration of one’s purpose or intention to work injury to the person, property, or rights of another. A threat has been defined to be any menace

The ebb and flow of the sea. See Baird v. Campbell, 67 App. Div. 104, 73 N. Y. Supp. 617.

The measure of duration. The word is expressive both of a precise point or terminus and of an interval between two points. In pleading. A poiut in or space of duration at

In Saxon law. Tills was the name of the head or chief of a decennary. In modern English law, he is the same as an under-coustable or peace-of- ficer. In modern law.

In English law. Toll means an excise of goods; a seizure of some part for permission of the rest. It has two significations: A liberty to buy and sell within the precincts

In old English law. The quantity of a ton or tun, in a ship’s freight or bulk, for which tonnage or tuu- nage was paid to the king. Cowell.

A good debt to the crown, t. e., a debt paid to the sheriff, to be by him paid over to the king. Cowell; Mozley & Whitley. Totum prfefertur unicuique parti. 3

In old English law. The track or trace of a felon, by which he was pursued with the hue and cry; a foot-step, hoof- print, or wheel-track. Bract, fols. llii, 1216.

Lat. In French law. The drawer of a bill. Story, Bills,