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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 tithing.

It was a custom within the mauor of Halton, in Chester, that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should

In old English law. The custom of giving entertainments to a sheriff, etc., for three nights.

Lat. A civil-law term for building material; timber.

A place where intoxicating driuks are sold in drams or small quantities to be drunk on the premises, and where men resort for drinking purposes. See Leesburg v. Putuam, 103 Ga. 110,

In old English law. The owner of a toft. Cowell; Spelman.

A measure of weight; differently fixed, by different statutes, at two thousand pounds avoirdupois, (1 Rev. St N. Y. 009,

In old English practice. A word written by the foreign opposer or other officer opposite to a debt due the king, to denote that it was a good debt; which was hence

1. In surveys of the public buul of the United States, a “township” is a division of territory six miles square, containing thirty-six sections. 2. In some of the states, this is

Lat In the civil law. Delivery ; transfer of possession; a derivative mode of acquiring, by which the owner of a corporeal thing, having the right and the will of aliening it,

To carry or pass over; to pass a thing over to another; to convey.

In the civil law. The right which heirs or legatees may have of passing to their successors the inheritance or legacy to which they were entitled, if tliey happen to die without

The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance; or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power. Webster. In England,

One who has committed trespass; one who unlawfully enters or in- trudes upon another’s land, or unlawfully and forcibly takes another’s personal property.