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TYLWITH

Brit. A tribe or family branching or issuing out of another. Cowell.

TABES DORSALIS

In medical jurisprudence. This is another name for locomotor ataxia. Tabetic dementia is a form of mental derangement or insanity complicated with tabes dorsalis, which generally precedes, or sometimes follows, the mental

TALLAGE

A word used metaphorically for a share of a man’s substance paid by way of tribute, toll, or tax, being derived from the French “taillcr,” which signifies to cut a piece out

TARIFF

A cartel of commerce, a book of rates, a table or catalogue, drawn usually in alphabetical order, containing the names of several kinds of merchandise, with the duties or customs to be

TAXT-WARD

An annual payment made to a superior in Scotland, instead of the duties due to him under the tenure of ward-holding. Abolished. Wharton.

TELLER

One who numbers or counts. An officer of a bank who receives or pays out money. Also one appointed to count the votes cast in a deliberative or legislative as- sembly or

TEMPUS

Lat In the civil and old English law. Time in general. A time limited ; a season; e. g., tempus pcssonis, mast time in the forest.

TERRA

if it be for his interest to accept or reject the succession which has fallen to him. Civ. Code La. art. 1033.

TESTAMENTI FACTIO

Lat In the civil law. The ceremony of making a testament, either as testator, heir, or witness.

TESTMOIGNE

An old law French term, denoting evidence or testimony or a witness. Testmoignes ne poent testifier le negative, mes l’affirmative. Witnesses cannot testify to a negative; they must testify to an affirmative.

THEN

This word, as an adverb, means “at that time,” referring to a time specified, either past or future. It has no power in itself to fix a time. It simply refers to

THINK

In a special finding by a jury, this word is equivalent to “believe.” and ex- presses the conclusion of the jury with sufficient positiveness. Martin v. Central Iowa Ry. Co., 59 Iowa,

THREE-DOLLAR PIECE

A gold coin of the United States, of the value of three dollars; authorized by the seventh section of the act of February 21, 1853.

TIE, v

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

TINBOUNDING

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

TITIUS

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

TOLLBOOTH

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

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