Category: T

Lat. In the civil law. A testament; a will, or last will. In old English law. A testament or will; a disposition of property made in con- templation of death. Bract, fol.

In old English law. The Rochester text. An ancient manuscript containing many of the Saxon laws, and the rights, customs, tenures, etc., of the church of Rochester, drawn up by Ernulph, bishop

In surveying, and in descriptions of land by courses and distances, this word, preceding each course given, imports that the following course is continuous with the one before it Flagg v. Mason,

By the laws of St. Edward the Confessor, if any man lay a third night in an inn, he was called a “third-night-awn-hinde,” and his host was answerable for him if he

Vassals, but not of the lowest degree; those who held lands of the chief lord.

To bind. “The parson Is not tied to find the parish clerk.” 1 Leon. 94.

is a custom regulating the manner in which tin is obtained from waste-land, or land which has formerly been waste-land, within certain districts in Corn- wall and Devon. The custom is described

In Roman law. A proper name, frequently used in designating an indefinite or fictitious person, or a person referred to by way of illustration. “Titius” and “Seius,” in this use, correspond to

A prison; a customhouse ; an exchange; also the place where goods are weighed. Wharton.

Lat In old English law. A shaving, or polling; the having the crown of the head shaven; tonsure. One of the peculiar badges of a clerk or clergyman.

It was an ancient superstition that the body of a murdered man would bleed freshly when touched by his murderer. Hence, in old criminal law, this was resorted to as a means

You deliver to bail. In old English practice. The name of a writ which might be issued in behalf of a party who, upon the writ de odio ct alia, had been

In old Scotch law. A roll containing the particular dittay taken up upon malefactors, which, with the portcous, is delivered by the justice clerk to the coroner, to the effect that the

Lat. To go, or pass over; to pass from one tiling, person, or place to another.

In medical jurisprudence. A wound; any injury to tlie body caused by ex- ternal violence.

In international law. An agreement between two or more independent states. Brande. An agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly

Lat. In the civil law. To give: to distribute.

One of the four terms of the English courts of common law, beginning on the 22d day of May, and end- ing on the 12th of June. 3 Steph. Comm. 562.

A weigher of wool. Co- well.

In Spanish law. Objections or exceptions to witnesses. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit 7, c. 10.