TYRANNY
Arbitrary or despotic government; the severe and autocratic exercise of sovereign power, either vested constitutionally in one ruler, or usurped by him by breaking down the division and distribution of governmental powers.
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Arbitrary or despotic government; the severe and autocratic exercise of sovereign power, either vested constitutionally in one ruler, or usurped by him by breaking down the division and distribution of governmental powers.
Lat In the civil law. A table or tablet; a thin sheet of wood, which, when covered with wax, was used for writing.
the word “general,” in such case, implying that there is no other restriction upon the descent of the estate than that it must go in the male line. So an estate in
A keeping account by tallies. Cowell.
Lat A common bull; because he was free to all the tenants within such a manor, liberty, etc.
Within the meaning of an exemption law, this term means work done by a team as a substantial part of a man’s business; as in farming, staging, express carrying, drawing of freight,
A tax of two shillings upon every plow-land, a decennary.
This phrase signifies things which are fixed to the freehold of the demised premises, but which the tenant may detach and take away, provided he does so in season. Wall v. Hinds,
A term used in pleading to denote that an exact copy is set out. 1 Chit. Crim. I/aw, 235. By the tenor of a deed, or other instrument in writing, is signified
Societies, in England, where the members commence their monthly contributions on a particular day, and continue to pay them until the realization of shares to a given amount for each member, by
A writ for a clerk to recover his lands, goods, and chattels, formerly seized, after he had cleared himself of the felony of which he was accused, and delivered to his ordinary
One who has made a will; one who dies leaving a will.
A certain part of the king’s land or property, of which the ruler or governor was called “thane.” Cowell.
In Saxon law. A husbandman or inferior tenant; an under-thane. Cowell.
An uuder-constable. Cowell.
In medical Jurisprudence. The front or anterior part of the neck. Where one was indicted for murder by “cutting the throat” of the deceased, it was held that the word “throat” was
Pr. Such. Nul tiel record, no such record.
Sax. In old forest law. A petty ofiicer of the forest who had the care of vert aud venison by night, and performed other servile duties.
title to lands.
One who collects tribute or taxes.