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In old English law. A small tax or allowance to the sheriff from each tithing of his county towards the charge of keeping courts, etc. Cowell.

Two English inns of court, thus called because anciently the dwelling place of the Knights Templar. On the suppression of the order, they were purchased by some professors of the common law,

An offer of money; the act by which one produces and offers to a person holding a claim or demand against him the amount of money which he considers and admits to

The essay or assay of bread. Blount.

A day given to a defendant. Spelman.

“to the terror of the people.” See Arto v. State, 19 Tex. App. 130.

Lat. In the civil law. Testate; one who has made a will. Dig. 50, 17, 7.

An inn of chancery. See INNS OF CHANCEET.

At once; without interruption ; without delay or lapse of time. Putnam v. Langley, 133 Mass. 205.

1154

A Saxon coin worth four- pence. Du Fresne.

In old records. A close or Inclosure; a croft Cowell.

In old Scotch law. The sea-mark; high-water mark. Tide-mouth. Skene.

The words in a conveyance which show the estate intended to be conveyed. Thus, in a conveyance of land in fee-simple, the grant is to “A. and his heirs, to have and

The same as “tollbooth.” Also a place where merchants meet; a local tri- bunal for small civil causes held at the Guildhall, Bristol.

Wrongful; of the nature of a tort. Formerly certain modes of conveyance (e. g., feoffments, fines, etc.) had the effect of passing not merely the estate of the person making the conveyance,

The act or service of towing ships and vessels, usually by means of a small steamer called a “tug.” That which is given for towing ships in rivers. Towage is the drawing

In England, a shop deeper; a small shop-keeper. In the United States, a mechanic or artificer of any kind, whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. Richie v. Mc- Cauley,

Lat. In the civil law. The settlement of a suit or matter in con- troversy, by tlie litigating parties, between themselves, without referring it to arbitra- tion. Ilallifax, Civil Law, b. 3,

The reproduction In one language of a book, document, or speech delivered in another language. The transfer of property ; but In this sense it is seldom used. 2 Xtl. Comm. 204.