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

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 ;

The court held for a triding or trithing. Cowell.

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

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

Under St. 13 Car. II. St. 1, c.

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

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

In old records. A kind of customary payment by a tenant. Cowell.

A conviction of felony, or the person so convicted. Cowell.

A phrase used as the name of a writ of error from inferior courts, when the error is supposed to be as well in giving the judgment as in awarding execution upon

In old English law. A seller of wine : one who kept a house or shop for the sale of wiue.

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.