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Lat. Ends; bounds; limiting or terminating points.

A writ that lay for a man convicted by attaint, to bring the record and process before the king, and take a fine for his imprisonment, and then to deliver to him

A woman who makes a will; a woman who dies leaving a will; a female testator.

Such lands as were granted by charter of the Saxon kings to their thanes with all immunities, except from the trinoda neeessitas. Cowell.

In Saxon law. Offenders who joined in a body of seven to commit depreda- tions. Wharton.

The designation, In colloquial language, of that portion of a decedent’s personal estate (one-tliird) which goes to the widow where there is also a child or chil- dreu. See Yeomans v. Stevens,

To ignore, (a bill of indictment.)

Fr. Third. Tierce mcin, third hand. Britt. c. 120.

The ancient parliament or annual convention in the Isle of Mau, held upou Midsummer-day, at St John’s chapel. Cowell.

Persons who in Scotland, after the Reformation, obtained grants from the crown of the monasteries and priories then erected into temporal lordships. Thus the titles formerly held by the religious houses, as

In a general sense, tolls signify auy manner of customs, subsidy, prestation, imposition, or sum of mouey demanded for exporting or importing of any wares or merchandise to be takeu of the

In Scotch law. An annual rent out of a house built in a burgh. Whishaw. A duty wliich. from the act 1551, c. 10, appears to have been due from cer- tain

L. Fr. Always ready. The emphatic words of the old plea of tender; tbe defendant alleging that he has always been ready, and still is ready, to dis- charge the debt. 3

A combination or association of men employed in the same trade, (usually a manual or mechanical trade,) united for the purpose of regulating the customs and standards of their trade, fixing prices

Rails for conveyance of traffic along a road not owned, as a railway is, by those who lay down the rails and convey the traffic. Wharton.

Lat. Passage from one place to another; transit. In transitu, on the passage, transit, or way. 2 Kent, Comm. 513.

In the language of pleading, a traverse signifies a denial. Thus, where a defendant denies any material allegation of fact in the plaintiff’s declaration, he is said to traverse it. and the

In old English law. Fine wheat

An ancient custom in a borough in the county of Hereford, so called because thirty burgesses paid Id. rent for their houses to the bishop, who was lord of the manor. Wharton.

In conveyancing. Of three parts; a term applied to an indenture to which there are three several parties, (of the first, second, and third parts,) and which is executed in triplicate.