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TESTABLE

A person Is said to be testable when he has capacity to make a will; a man of twenty-one years of age and of sane mind is testable.

TESTIMONIUM CLAUSE

In conveyancing. That clause of a deed or instrument with which it concludes: “In witness whereof, the parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals.”

THIEF

One who has been guilty of larceny or theft The term covers both compound and simple larceny. America Ins. Co. v. Bryan, 1 Ilill (N. Y.) 25.

THRAVE

In old English law. A measure of corn or grain, consisting of twenty- four sheaves or four shocks, six sheaves to every shock. Cowell.

TICKET

In contracts. A slip of paper containing a certificate that the person to whom it is issued, or the holder, is entitled to 6ome right or privilege therein mentioned or described; such,

TIEEAGE

A place tilled or cultivated; land under cultivation, as opposed to lauds lying fallow or iu pasture.

TOKEN

A sign or mark; a material evidence of the existeuce of a fact. Thus, cheating by “false tokens” implies the use of fabricated or deceitfully contrived material objects to assist the person’s

TONNAGE DUTY

In English law. A duty imposed by parliament upon merchandise exported and imported, according to a certain rate upon every ton. Brown. In American law. A tax laid upon vessels according to

TOXICANT

A poison; a toxic agent; any substance capable of producing toxica- tion or poisoning.

TRADITOR

In old English law. A traitor; one guilty of high treason. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 21,

TRANSFRETATIO

Lat. In old English law. A crossing of the strait, [of Dover;] a passing or sailing over from England to France. The royal passages or voyages to Gascony, Brittany, and other parts

TRANSPORTATION

The removal of goods or persons from one place to another, by a carrier. See Railroad Co. v. Pratt, 22 Wall. 133, 22 L. Ed. 827; Interstate Commerce Coin’n v. Brimson, 154

TREASURE

A treasure is a thing hidden or buried in the earth, on which no one can prove his property, and which is discovered by chance. Civil Code La. art. 3423, par. 2.

TRET

An allowance made for the water or dust that may be mixed with any com- modity. It differs from tare, (q. v.)

TRINEPOS

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandson’s or great-granddaughter’s great- grandson. A male descendant iu the sixth degree. Inst. 3, 6, 4.

TRIUMVIR

Lat. In old English law. A trithing man or constable of three hundred. Cowell.

TRUSTOR

A word occasionally, though rarely, used as a designation of the creator, donor, or founder of a trust

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