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TORT

Wrong ; injury; the opposite of right So called, according to Lord Coke, be cause it is wrested, or crooked, being contrary to that which is right and straight. Co. Litt 1586.

TOUT UN SOUND

L. Fr. All one sound; sounding the same ; idcvi sonans. Toute exception non surveillee tend & prendre la place du principe. Every exception not watched tends to assume the place of

TRADER

A person engaged in trade; one whose business is to buy and sell mer- chandise, or any class of goods, deriving a profit from his dealings. 2 Kent, Comm. 389; State v.

TRAMP

A strolling beggar; a vagrant or vagabond. See State v. Hogan, 63 Ohio St. 202, 58 N. E. 572, 52 L. R. A. 863, 81 Am. St. Rep. 626; Miller v. State,

TRAVERSER

In pleading. One who traverses or denies. A prisoner or party indicted; so called from his traversing the indictment.

TREMAGIUM, TREMESIUM

In old records. The season or time of sowing summer corn, being about March, the third month, to which the word may allude. Cowell. Tres faciunt collegium. Three make a corporation ;

TRIPLICACION

L. Fr. In old pleading. A rejoinder in pleading; the defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s replication. Britt. c. 77.

TRUCK ACT

In English law. This name is given to the statute 1 & 2 Wm. IV. c. 37, passed to abolish what is commonly called the “truck system,” under which employers were in

TUTOR

In the civil law. This term corresponds nearly to “guardian.” (f. c., a person appointed to have the care of the person of a minor and the administration of his estate,) except

TWELVE-MONTH,

in the singular num-TYTHE. Tithe, or tenth part ber, includes all the year; but tivclio months are to be computed according to twenty-TYTHING. A company of ten; a dis- eight days for

TAILZIE

In Scotch law. An entail. A tailzied fee is that which the owner, by exer- cising his inherent right of disposing of his property, settles upon others than those to whom it

TALTARUM’S CASE

A case reported In Yearb. 12 Edw. IV. 19-21, which is regarded as having established the foundation of common recoveries.

TAVERN-KEEPER

One who keeps a tavern. One who keeps an Inn; an innkeeper.

TEDDING

Spreading. Tedding grass is spreading it out after it is cut in the swath. 10 East, 5.

TEMPLARS

A religious order of knighthood, instituted about the year 1110, and so called because the members dwelt iu a part of the temple of Jerusalem, aud not far from the sepulclier of

TEND

In old English law. To tender or offer. Cowell.

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