Category: T

As an abbreviation, this letter usually stands for either “Territory,” “Trinity,” “term,” “tempore,” (in the time of.) or “title.” Every person who was convicted of felony, short of murder, and admitted to

Silent; not expressed; implied or inferred; manifested by the refraining from contradiction or objection; inferred from the situation and circumstances, in the absence of express matter. Thus, tacit consent is consent inferred

1. To lay hold of; to gain or receive into possession; to seize; to deprive one of the possession of; to assume ownership. Thus, it is a constitutional provision that a man’s

Domesticated; accustomed to man; reclaimed from a natural state of wild- ness. In the Latin phrase, tame animals are described as domitce naturce.

To impose a tax ; to enact or declare that a pecuniary contribution shall be made by the persons liable, for the support of government. Spoken of an individual, to be taxed

In Hindu law. A note of hand; a promissory note given by a native banker or money-lender to zemindars and others, to enable them to furnish government with se- curity for the

The peers of England ; the bishops are not in strictness held to be peers, but merely lords of parliament. 2 Steph. Comm. 330, 345.

This term, in its vulgar acceptation, is only applied to houses and other buildings, but in its original, proper, and legal sense it signifies everything that may be holden, provided it be

In English law. The statute 9 Geo. IV. c. 14, taking Its name from Lord Tenterden, who procured its enactment, which is a species of extension of the statute of frauds, and

A writ which lay for the reversioner, when the possession was withheld by the lessee, or a stranger, after the determination of a lease for years. Brown.

Lat. In old English law. Third publication or proclamation of intended marriage.

Lat. In old English law and practice. A solemn formula of attestation by the sovereign, used at the conclusion of charters, and other public instruments, and also of original writs out of

An article which particularizes the subject spoken of. “Grammatical niceties should not be resorted to without necessity; but it would be extending liberality to an unwarrantable length to confound the articles ‘a’

The treasury; a treasure.

When “this” and “that” refer to different things before expressed, “this” refers to the thing last mentioned, and “that” to the thing first mentioned. Russell v. Kennedy, 60 Pa. 251.

A woodward, or person that looks after a wood.

As colloquially applied to a note, bond, mortgage, lease, etc., this term signi- fies that the clauses providing the creditor’s remedy in case of default (as, by fore- closure, execution, distress, etc.)

A tribute paid for the liberty of digging in tiu-miues. Cowell.

In feudal law. A towel. There is a tenure of lands by the service of waiting with a towel at the king’s coronation. Cow- ell. TOBACCONIST. Any person, firm, or corporation whose

A writ whereby a cause depending in a court barou was taken and removed into a county court Old Nat. Brev. 4.