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TRIPLICATIO

Lat. In the civil law. The reply of the plaintiff to the rejoinder of the defendant. It corresponds to the surrejoinder of common law. Inst 4, 14; Bract. 1. 5, t 5,

TRUE

Conformable to fact; correct; exact; actual; genuine; honest “In one sense, that only is true which is conformable to the actual state of things. In that sense, a statement is untrue which

TUN

A measure of wine or oil, containing four hogsheads.

TWICE IN JEOPARDY

See JEOP- TZAR, TZARINA. The emperor and ARDY; ONCE IN JEOPARDY. empress of Russia. See CZAB. U. B. 1181 UBI NON EST MANIFESTA u U. B. An abbreviation for “Upper Bench.” U.

TAC, TAK

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

TAINT

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

TAM QUAM

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

TAVERNER

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

TEDING-PENNY

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.

TEMPLE

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,

TENDER

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

TESTAMENT

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

TESTATUS

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

THEREUPON

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

THRYMSA

A Saxon coin worth four- pence. Du Fresne.

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