Category: T

Within the meaning of an exemption law, a “team” consists of either one or two horses, with their harness and the vehicle to which they are customarily attached for use. Wilcox v.

That labor which a tenant was bound to do for his lord for a certain number of days.

distinguished from copyhold by many of its incidents. 2. The so-called tenant-right of renewal is the expectation of a lessee that his lease will be renewed, in cases where it is an

A term of heraldry, meaning orange color. In engravings it should be represented by lines in bend sinister crossed by others bar-ways. Heralds who blazon by the names of the heavenly bodies,

This name is sometimes given to property of such a nature that its duration is not perpetual or indefinite, but is limited or liable to terminate upon the happening of an event

In English law. A land- roll or survey of lands, containing the quantity of acres, tenants’ names, and such like; and in the exchequer there is a terrier of all the glebe

I.at. In the civil law. To testify; to attest; to declare, publish, or make known a thing before witnesses. To make a will. Calvin.

Germ. A term used in topography to designate a line representing the deepest part of a continuous depression in the surface, such as a watercourse; hence the middle of the deepest part

Government of a state by the immediate direction of God, (or by the assumed direction of a supposititious divinity.) or the state thus governed.

Following next after the second ; also, with reference to any legal In- strument or transaction or judicial proceeding, any outsider or person not a party to the affair nor immediately concerned

In Saxon and old English law. The third part of a county; a divisiou of a county consisting of three or more hundreds. Cowell. Corrupted to the modern “riding,” which is still

When, at an election, neither candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, but each has the same number, there is said to be a “tie.” So when the number of votes

L. Fr. A place where justice was administered. Kelham.

The radical meaning of this word appears to be that of a mark, style, or designation; a distinctive appellation; the way by which anything is known. Thus, in the law of persons,

A vessel by which the toll of corn for grinding is measured. Tolle voluntatem et erit omnis actus indifferens. Take away the will, and every action will be indifferent. Bract fol. 2.

In old English law. A being shaven; the having the head shaven; a shaveu head. 4 Bl. Comm. 307.

L. Fr. Always and still ready. This is the name of a plea of tender. TOUR D’ECHELLE 1163 TOWN TOUR D’ECHEELE. In French law. An easement consisting of the right to rest

The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter; or the business of buying and selling for money; traffic; barter. Webster; May v. Sloan, 101 U. S. 237, 25 L. Ed. 797;

One who, being trusted, betrays ; one guilty of treason.

In English law. A warrant or permit for the custom-house to let goods pass. Transit in rem jndicatam. It passes into a matter adjudged; it becomes converted into a res judicata or