TENERA EST PACTIO
of no further use, and is therefore Joined in tlie habendum,
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of no further use, and is therefore Joined in tlie habendum,
A term used In stating the tenure in an action for waste done after the termination of the tenancy. See TENET.
In English ecclesiastical practice. A time for the determination of appeals, shorter than the terminus juris, appointed by the judge. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 11, no. 36.
To bring one to a trial and examination, or to ascertain the truth or the quality or fitness of a thing. Something hy which to ascertain the truth respecting another thing; a
To be tested is to bear the teste, (q. v.)
A writ that formerly lay for him that had any part of the king’s demesne in fee-l’arm, to recover reasonable toll of the king’s tenants there, if his demesne had been accustomed
A tithing.
It was a custom within the mauor of Halton, in Chester, that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should
In old English law. The custom of giving entertainments to a sheriff, etc., for three nights.
Lat. A civil-law term for building material; timber.
A place where intoxicating driuks are sold in drams or small quantities to be drunk on the premises, and where men resort for drinking purposes. See Leesburg v. Putuam, 103 Ga. 110,
In old English law. The owner of a toft. Cowell; Spelman.
A measure of weight; differently fixed, by different statutes, at two thousand pounds avoirdupois, (1 Rev. St N. Y. 009,
In old English practice. A word written by the foreign opposer or other officer opposite to a debt due the king, to denote that it was a good debt; which was hence
1. In surveys of the public buul of the United States, a “township” is a division of territory six miles square, containing thirty-six sections. 2. In some of the states, this is
Lat In the civil law. Delivery ; transfer of possession; a derivative mode of acquiring, by which the owner of a corporeal thing, having the right and the will of aliening it,
To carry or pass over; to pass a thing over to another; to convey.
In the civil law. The right which heirs or legatees may have of passing to their successors the inheritance or legacy to which they were entitled, if tliey happen to die without
The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance; or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power. Webster. In England,
One who has committed trespass; one who unlawfully enters or in- trudes upon another’s land, or unlawfully and forcibly takes another’s personal property.
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