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TINKERMEN

Fishermen who destroyed the young fry ou the river Thames by nets and unlawful engines. Cowell.

TITULUS

Lat. In the civil law. Title ; the source or ground of possession ; the means whereby possession of a thing is acquired, whether such possession be lawful or not. In old

TOLLSESTER

Au old excise; a duty paid by tenants of some mauors to the lord for liberty to brew and sell ale. Cowell.

TORT

Wrong ; injury; the opposite of right So called, according to Lord Coke, be cause it is wrested, or crooked, being contrary to that which is right and straight. Co. Litt 1586.

TOUT UN SOUND

L. Fr. All one sound; sounding the same ; idcvi sonans. Toute exception non surveillee tend & prendre la place du principe. Every exception not watched tends to assume the place of

TRADER

A person engaged in trade; one whose business is to buy and sell mer- chandise, or any class of goods, deriving a profit from his dealings. 2 Kent, Comm. 389; State v.

TRAMP

A strolling beggar; a vagrant or vagabond. See State v. Hogan, 63 Ohio St. 202, 58 N. E. 572, 52 L. R. A. 863, 81 Am. St. Rep. 626; Miller v. State,

TRAVERSER

In pleading. One who traverses or denies. A prisoner or party indicted; so called from his traversing the indictment.

TREMAGIUM, TREMESIUM

In old records. The season or time of sowing summer corn, being about March, the third month, to which the word may allude. Cowell. Tres faciunt collegium. Three make a corporation ;

TRIPLICACION

L. Fr. In old pleading. A rejoinder in pleading; the defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s replication. Britt. c. 77.

TRUCK ACT

In English law. This name is given to the statute 1 & 2 Wm. IV. c. 37, passed to abolish what is commonly called the “truck system,” under which employers were in

TUTOR

In the civil law. This term corresponds nearly to “guardian.” (f. c., a person appointed to have the care of the person of a minor and the administration of his estate,) except

TWELVE-MONTH,

in the singular num-TYTHE. Tithe, or tenth part ber, includes all the year; but tivclio months are to be computed according to twenty-TYTHING. A company of ten; a dis- eight days for

TAC, TAK

In old records. A kind of customary payment by a tenant. Cowell.

TAINT

A conviction of felony, or the person so convicted. Cowell.

TAM QUAM

A phrase used as the name of a writ of error from inferior courts, when the error is supposed to be as well in giving the judgment as in awarding execution upon

TAVERNER

In old English law. A seller of wine : one who kept a house or shop for the sale of wiue.

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