Category: T

Lat In old English law. A shaving, or polling; the having the crown of the head shaven; tonsure. One of the peculiar badges of a clerk or clergyman.

It was an ancient superstition that the body of a murdered man would bleed freshly when touched by his murderer. Hence, in old criminal law, this was resorted to as a means

You deliver to bail. In old English practice. The name of a writ which might be issued in behalf of a party who, upon the writ de odio ct alia, had been

In old Scotch law. A roll containing the particular dittay taken up upon malefactors, which, with the portcous, is delivered by the justice clerk to the coroner, to the effect that the

Lat. To go, or pass over; to pass from one tiling, person, or place to another.

In medical jurisprudence. A wound; any injury to tlie body caused by ex- ternal violence.

In international law. An agreement between two or more independent states. Brande. An agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly

Lat. In the civil law. To give: to distribute.

One of the four terms of the English courts of common law, beginning on the 22d day of May, and end- ing on the 12th of June. 3 Steph. Comm. 562.

A weigher of wool. Co- well.

In Spanish law. Objections or exceptions to witnesses. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit 7, c. 10.

Lat. In the civil law. Tutelage: that species of guardianship which continued to the age of puberty; the guardian being called “tutor,” and the ward, “pu- pillus.” 1 Dom. Civil Law, b.

In old English law, a tumbrel, castigatory, or ducking stool, anciently used as an instrument of punishment for common scolds.

A synopsis or condensed statement, bringing together numerous items or details so as to be comprehended in a single view; as genealogical tables, exhibiting the names and relationships of all the persons

Lat. Having personally touched the holy Gospel. Cro. Eliz. 105.The description of a corporal oath.

Tax or toll gatherers; mentioned by Chaucer.

In old English law. A heap; a liay-mow, or hay-stack. Focnum in tassis, hay In stacks. Reg. Orig. 90.

In old English law. A royalty or privilege granted, by royal charter, to a lord of a manor, for the having, restraining, and judging of bondmen and villeins, with their children, goods,

An Anglo-Saxon charter of land. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 1, p. 10.

is the relation of a tenant to the land which he holds. Hence it signifies (1) the estate of a tenant, as in the expressions “joint tenancy,” “tenancy in common ;” (2)