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In Scotch law. The name of a clause in charters of heritable rights, which derives its name from its first words, “tenendas pr (Edict a a terras;” it points out the superior

In English law. A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by parliament; formerly the real tenth part of nil the movables belonging to the subject. 1

Boundary; a limit, either of space or time. The phrases “terminus a quo” and “terminus ad quern” are used, respectively, to designate the starting point and terminating point of a private way.

Lat In the civil law. A third person intervening; a third person who comes in between the par- ties to a suit; one who interpleads. Gilbert’s Forum Rom. 47.

In practice. The concluding clause, commencing with the word “Witness,” etc. A writ which bears the teste is sometimes said to be tested. “Teste” is a word commonly used in the last

Any edifice used for the purpose of dramatic or operatic or other representations, plays, or performances, for admission to which entrance-money is re- ceived, not including halls rented or used occasionally for

A law-maker; a lawgiver.

Fixing “this day six months,” or “three months,” for the next stage of a bill, is one of the modes in which the house of lords and the house of commons reject

One of the “barbarian codes,” as they are termed; supposed by Montesquieu to have been given by Theod- oric, king of Austrasia, to the Thuringians, who were his subjects. Esprit des Lois,

Lat In the Civil law. The name of a servitude which is the right of inserting a beam or timber from the wall of one house into that of a neighboring house,

In Scotch law. The loss of the feu, from allowing two years of feu duty to run iuto the third unpaid. Bell.

A place or piece of ground on which a house formerly stood, which has been destroyed by accident or decay. 2 Broom & II. Comm. 17.

In old English law. Wroug; rapine; extortion. Cowell.

Originally a nickname for the wild Irish in Ulster. Afterwards given to, and adopted by, one of the two great parliamentary parties which have alternately governed Great Britain since the Revolution in

In English law. Originally, a vill or tithing; but now a generic term, which comprehends under it the several species of cities, boroughs, and common towns. I Bl. Comm. 114. In American

Engaging in trade, (q. v.;) pursuing the business or occupation of trade or of a trader.

An official copy of certain proceedings in a court. Thus, any person interested in a judgment or other record of a court can obtain a transcript of it. U. S. v. Gaussen,

A fact by means of which a right is transferred or passes from one person to another; one, that is, which fulfills the double function of terminating the right of one person

is an instrument of prison discipline, being a wheel or cylinder with an horizontal axis, having steps attached to it, up which the prisoners walk, and thus put the axis in mo-

Any misfeasance or act of one man whereby another is injuriously treated or damnified. 3 Bl. Comm. 208. An injury or misfeasance to the person, property, or rights of another person, done