Category: T

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.

In Louisiana. A list of creditors of an insolvent estate, stating what each is entitled to. Taylor v. Hollander, 4 Mart. N. S. (La.) 535.

Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed, as a fee or estate in fee, to a certain order of succession, or to certain heirs.

L. Lat. A term including all taxes. 2 Inst. 532; People v. Brooklyn, 9 Barb. (N. Y.) 551; Bernards Tp. v. Allen, 61 N. J. Law. 22S, 39 Atl. 716.

In the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, the lords of manors anciently claimed tlie privilege of having their tenants’ flocks or sheep brought at night upon their own demesne lands, there to

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