Category: T

In English law. A customary duty or toll for weighing wool; so called because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12.

In English law. A barrister who has a preaudience in the exchequer, and also one who has a particular place in court, is so called. Brown.

Lat. Baseness; infamy; immorality; turpitude. Tuta est custodia quae sibimet cre- ditur. Ilob. 340. That guardianship is secure which is intrusted to itself alone.

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

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

Lat. In old English law. Touching the holy evangelists. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 16,

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

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

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

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

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.

In old English law. A dean. Cowell.

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

In old English law. A landholder.

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

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.

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.