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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.

In old English law. One who has been thrice married; one who, at different times and successively, has had three wives ; a trigamist. 3 Inst. 88.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandfather’s great-grandfather; the male ascendant in the sixth degree.

In Scotch law. The maker y or creator of a trust.

Turbary, or common of turbary, is the right or liberty of digging turf upon another man’s ground. Brown.

The highest rank of men in the Saxon government, who were valued at 1200s. If any injury were done to such persons, satisfaction was to be made according to their worth. Cowell.

One who wears a tabard or short gown; the name is still used as the title of certain bachelors of arts on the old foundation of Queen’s College, Oxford. Enc. Lond.

In Scotch law, this signifies laches in not prosecuting a legal claim, or in acquiescing in an adverse one. Mozley & Whitley.