Category: T

Turbary, or common of turbary, is the right or liberty of digging turf upon another man’s ground. Brown.

The highest rank of men in the Saxon government, who were valued at 1200s. If any injury were done to such persons, satisfaction was to be made according to their worth. Cowell.

One who wears a tabard or short gown; the name is still used as the title of certain bachelors of arts on the old foundation of Queen’s College, Oxford. Enc. Lond.

In Scotch law, this signifies laches in not prosecuting a legal claim, or in acquiescing in an adverse one. Mozley & Whitley.

Lat Such; such men. When, by means of challenges or any other cause, a sufficient number of unexceptionable jurors does not appear at the trial, either party may pray a “tales,” as

In old Irish law. A species of tenure, founded on ancient usage, which allotted the inheritance of lands, castles, etc., to the “oldest and worthiest man of the deceased’s name and blood.”

Subject to taxation; liable to be assessed, along with others, for a share in a tax. Persons subject to taxation are sometimes called “taxables;” so property which may be assessed for taxation

Those entitled to tithes.

The laity; secular people.

A tenant; the defendant in a real action.

In old English law. Tenure. Tenura est pactio contra communem feudi natnram ac rationem, in contractu interposita. Wright, Ten. 21. Tenure i

In English ecclesiastical practice. The time of one or two years, allowed by law for the determination of appeals. Hallifax, CivU Law, b. 3, c. 11, no. 38.

An ancient and authentic record in two volumes, in the custody of the king’s remembrancer in the exchequer, said to be compiled by John de Nevil, a justice itinerant, in the eighteenth

Lat Witnesses.

An abolished writ for citizens or burgesses to assert their right to exemption from toll. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 220.

Lat. In the civil and old European law. An aunt.

The term means, according to its derivation, a street or passage through which one can fare, (travel;) that is, a street or highway affording an unobstructed exit at each end into another

A colloquial expression for credit or trust; credit given for goods purchased.

In old Saxon law. An accusation.

In English law. An officer appointed by the marshal of the king’s bench to attend upon the judges with a kind of rod or staff tipped with silver, who take iuto their