Category: T

streets, and constructing sewers in cities, and canals and ditches for the purpose of drainage in the country. They are generally of peculiar local benefit. These burdens have always, in every state,

In a general sense, the name “telephone” applies to any instrument or apparatus which transmits sound beyond the limits of ordinary audibility. But, since the recent discoveries in telephony, tlie name is

Lat. In the civil law. A plea of time; a plea of lapse of time, in bar of an action. Corresponding to the plea of prescription, or the statute of limitations, in

Lat. He holds; he held. In the Latin forms of the writ of waste against a tenant, these words introduced the allegation of tenure. If the tenancy still existed, and recovery of

A term applied in the West Indies to a person one of whose parents was white aud the other a mulatto. See Daniel v. Guy, 19 Ark. 131.

An exemption from all uncertain services. Cowell.

Pertaining to a will or testament: as testamentary causes. Derived from, founded on, or appointed by a testament or will: as a testamentary guardian, letters testamentary, etc. A paper, instrument, document, gift,

Lat. A witness; one who gives evidence in court, or who witnesses a docu- ment. Testis de visu praeponderat aliis. 4 Inst. 279. An eye-witness is preferred to others. Testis Inpanaris sufficit

A duty or acknowledgment paid by inferior tenants in respect of theme or team. Cowell.

In Saxon law. A thane or nobleman; knight or freeman. Cowell.

Sending threatening letters is the name of the offense of sending letters containing threats of the kinds recognized by the statute as criminal. See People v. Griffin, 2 Barb. (N. Y.) 429.

The ebb and flow of the sea. See Baird v. Campbell, 67 App. Div. 104, 73 N. Y. Supp. 617.

The measure of duration. The word is expressive both of a precise point or terminus and of an interval between two points. In pleading. A poiut in or space of duration at

In Saxon law. Tills was the name of the head or chief of a decennary. In modern English law, he is the same as an under-coustable or peace-of- ficer. In modern law.

In English law. Toll means an excise of goods; a seizure of some part for permission of the rest. It has two significations: A liberty to buy and sell within the precincts

In old English law. The quantity of a ton or tun, in a ship’s freight or bulk, for which tonnage or tuu- nage was paid to the king. Cowell.

A good debt to the crown, t. e., a debt paid to the sheriff, to be by him paid over to the king. Cowell; Mozley & Whitley. Totum prfefertur unicuique parti. 3

In old English law. The track or trace of a felon, by which he was pursued with the hue and cry; a foot-step, hoof- print, or wheel-track. Bract, fols. llii, 1216.

Lat. In French law. The drawer of a bill. Story, Bills,

See TRUST.