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TOLL, v

To bar, defeat, or take away; thus, to toll the entry means to deny or take away the right of entry.

TONNAGIUM

In old English law. A custom or impost upon wines and other mer- chandise exported or imported, according to a certain rate per ton. Spelman; Cowell.

TOTIS VIRIBUS

Lat. With all one’s might or power; with all his might; very strenuously.

TRADES

Lat. In the civil law. A beam or rafter of a house. Calvin. In old English law. A measure of grain, containing twenty-four sheaves; a thrave. Spelman.

TRAFFIC

Commerce; trade; dealings in merchandise, bills, money, and the like. See Iu re Insurance Co. (D. C.) 96 Fed. 757; Levine v. State, 35 Tex. Cr. R. 647. 34 S. W. 960;

TRANSGRESSIONE

In old English law. A writ or action of trespass. Transgressione mnltiplicata, crescat poena; inflictio. When transgression is mul- tiplied, let the infliction of punishment be increased. 2 Inst 479.

TRASLADO

In Spanish law. A copy; a sight. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 7, c. 3. A copy of a document taken by the notary from the original, or a subsequent copy

TREASURER

An officer of a public or private corporation, company, or government, charged with the receipt, custody, and disbursement of its moneys or funds. See State v. Eames, 39 La. Ann. 9S6, 3

TREYT

Withdrawn, as a juror. Written also treat. Cowell.

TRINITY HOUSE

In English law. A society at Deptford Strond, incorporated by Hen. VIII. iu 1515, for the promotion of commerce and navigation by licensing and regulating pilots, and ordering and erecting beacons, light-houses,

TRIVERBIAL DAYS

In the civil law. Juridical days; days allowed to the praetor for deciding causes; days on which the pr.-etor might speak the three characteristic words of his office, viz., do, dico, addico.

TURNPIKE

A gate set across a road, to stop travelers and carriages until toll is paid for the privilege of passage thereon.

TYBURN TICKET

A certificate which was given to the prosecutor of a felon to conviction.

TABERNARIUS

Lat In the civil law. A shop-keeper. Dig. 14, 3, 5, 7. In old English law. A taverner or tavern-keeper. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12,

TACKSMAN

In Scotch law. A tenant or lessee; oue to whom a tack is granted. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 2, p. 153.

TALITER PROCESSUM EST

Upon pleading the judgment of an inferior court, tbe proceedings preliminary to such judgment, and on which the same was founded, must, to some extent, appear in the pleading, but the rule

TARE

A deficiency in the weight or quantity of merchandise by reason of the weight of tlie box, cask, bag, or other receptacle which contains it and is weighed with it. Also an

TELEGRAPH

streets, and constructing sewers in cities, and canals and ditches for the purpose of drainage in the country. They are generally of peculiar local benefit. These burdens have always, in every state,

TELEPHONE

In a general sense, the name “telephone” applies to any instrument or apparatus which transmits sound beyond the limits of ordinary audibility. But, since the recent discoveries in telephony, tlie name is

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