Category: T

A vessel by which the toll of corn for grinding is measured. Tolle voluntatem et erit omnis actus indifferens. Take away the will, and every action will be indifferent. Bract fol. 2.

In old English law. A being shaven; the having the head shaven; a shaveu head. 4 Bl. Comm. 307.

L. Fr. Always and still ready. This is the name of a plea of tender. TOUR D’ECHELLE 1163 TOWN TOUR D’ECHEELE. In French law. An easement consisting of the right to rest

The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter; or the business of buying and selling for money; traffic; barter. Webster; May v. Sloan, 101 U. S. 237, 25 L. Ed. 797;

One who, being trusted, betrays ; one guilty of treason.

In English law. A warrant or permit for the custom-house to let goods pass. Transit in rem jndicatam. It passes into a matter adjudged; it becomes converted into a res judicata or

Tbe act of child-bearing. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. Scott v. Donovan, 153 Mass. 378, 26 N.

“In consequence of this article, the trebellanic portion of the civil law

The seat of a judge; the place where he administers justice; a judicial court: the bench of judges. See Foster v. Worcester, 10 Pick. (Mass.) 81. In Roman law. An elevated seat

In old European law. An extraordinary kind of composition for an offense, consisting of three times nine, or twenty-seven times the single geld or pay- ment. Spelman.

Money formerly collected and raised in London, and the several counties of England, towards providing harness and maintenance for the militia, etc.

In Spanish law. Tort Las Partidas, pt 7, tit 6, 1. 5.

Lat. In the civil law. An action of tutelage; an action which lay for a ward or pupil, on the termination of tutelage, against the tutor or guardian, to compel au account

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.