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TABULAE

Lat. In Roman law. Tables. Writings of any kind used as evidences of a transaction. Brissonius.

TAILLE

Fr. Ill old French law. A tax or assessment levied by the king, or by any great lord, upon his subjects, usually taking the form of an imposition upon the owners of

TALLIA

L. Lat A tax or tribute; tallage; a share taken or cut out of any one’s Income or means. Spelman.

TAVERN

A place of entertainment; a house kept up for the accommodation of strangers. Originally, a house for the retailing of liquors to be drunk on the spot Web- ster. The word “tavern,”

TECHNICAL

Belonging or peculiar to an art or profession. Technical terms are frequently called in the books “words of art.”

TEMPEST

A violent or furious storm; a current of wind rushing with extreme vio- lence, and usually accompanied with rain or snow. See Stover v. Insurance Co., 3 Phila. (Pa.) 30; Thistle v.

TENCON

L. Fr. A dispute; a quarrel. Kelham.

TENORE PRiESENTIUM

By the tenor of these presents, i. e., the matter contained therein, or rather the intent and meaning thereof. Cowell.

TERMINI

Lat. Ends; bounds; limiting or terminating points.

TERRIS LIBER AND IS

A writ that lay for a man convicted by attaint, to bring the record and process before the king, and take a fine for his imprisonment, and then to deliver to him

TESTATRIX

A woman who makes a will; a woman who dies leaving a will; a female testator.

THANELANDS

Such lands as were granted by charter of the Saxon kings to their thanes with all immunities, except from the trinoda neeessitas. Cowell.

THEOF

In Saxon law. Offenders who joined in a body of seven to commit depreda- tions. Wharton.

THIRDS

The designation, In colloquial language, of that portion of a decedent’s personal estate (one-tliird) which goes to the widow where there is also a child or chil- dreu. See Yeomans v. Stevens,

TIERCE

A liquid measure, containing the third part of a pipe, or forty-two gallons. i

TINKERMEN

Fishermen who destroyed the young fry ou the river Thames by nets and unlawful engines. Cowell.

TITULUS

Lat. In the civil law. Title ; the source or ground of possession ; the means whereby possession of a thing is acquired, whether such possession be lawful or not. In old

TOLLSESTER

Au old excise; a duty paid by tenants of some mauors to the lord for liberty to brew and sell ale. Cowell.

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