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Turbary, or common of turbary, is the right or liberty of digging turf upon another man’s ground. Brown.

The highest rank of men in the Saxon government, who were valued at 1200s. If any injury were done to such persons, satisfaction was to be made according to their worth. Cowell.

A short gown; a herald’s coat; a surcoat.

Lat Silently; impliedly; tacitly.

In old pleading. The plaintiff’s count, declaration, or narrative of his case. 3 Bl. Comm. 293. The count or counting of money. Said to be derived from the same root as “tally.”

Property which may be touched; such as is perceptible to the senses; corporeal property, whether real or personal. The phrase is used in Opposition to such species of property as patents, franchises,

lr.it by certain persons termed “commissioners of sewers,” is not a parliamentary tax; whereas the income tax, which is directly imposed, and the amount also fixed, by act of parliament, is a

In Scotch law. A court which has jurisdiction of matters relating to tcinds, or tithes.

In English law. The lay fees of bishops, with which their churches are endowed or permitted to be endowed by the liberality of the sovereign, and in virtue of which tliey become

of no further use, and is therefore Joined in tlie habendum,

A term used In stating the tenure in an action for waste done after the termination of the tenancy. See TENET.

In English ecclesiastical practice. A time for the determination of appeals, shorter than the terminus juris, appointed by the judge. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 11, no. 36.

To bring one to a trial and examination, or to ascertain the truth or the quality or fitness of a thing. Something hy which to ascertain the truth respecting another thing; a

To be tested is to bear the teste, (q. v.)

A writ that formerly lay for him that had any part of the king’s demesne in fee-l’arm, to recover reasonable toll of the king’s tenants there, if his demesne had been accustomed

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.

In old Saxon law. An accusation.

In English law. An officer appointed by the marshal of the king’s bench to attend upon the judges with a kind of rod or staff tipped with silver, who take iuto their