Category: T

Sending threatening letters is the name of the offense of sending letters containing threats of the kinds recognized by the statute as criminal. See People v. Griffin, 2 Barb. (N. Y.) 429.

The ebb and flow of the sea. See Baird v. Campbell, 67 App. Div. 104, 73 N. Y. Supp. 617.

The measure of duration. The word is expressive both of a precise point or terminus and of an interval between two points. In pleading. A poiut in or space of duration at

In Saxon law. Tills was the name of the head or chief of a decennary. In modern English law, he is the same as an under-coustable or peace-of- ficer. In modern law.

In English law. Toll means an excise of goods; a seizure of some part for permission of the rest. It has two significations: A liberty to buy and sell within the precincts

In old English law. The quantity of a ton or tun, in a ship’s freight or bulk, for which tonnage or tuu- nage was paid to the king. Cowell.

A good debt to the crown, t. e., a debt paid to the sheriff, to be by him paid over to the king. Cowell; Mozley & Whitley. Totum prfefertur unicuique parti. 3

In old English law. The track or trace of a felon, by which he was pursued with the hue and cry; a foot-step, hoof- print, or wheel-track. Bract, fols. llii, 1216.

Lat. In French law. The drawer of a bill. Story, Bills,

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Drawing; one who draws. The drawer of a bill of exchange.

In English law. He whose charge was to put the lord treasurer and the rest of the judges of the exchequer in remembrance of such things as were called on and dealt

in Roman law, were civitus, libertas, and familia; i. e., citizenship, freedom, aud family rights.

are elder brethren of the Trinity House. If a question arising in an admiralty action depends upon technical skill and experience in navigation, TRINITY SITTINGS 1174 ROVER the judge or court is

Trifling; inconsiderable; of small worth or importance. In equity, a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as be- ing below tlie

In mercantile law. A measure containing sixty pounds of tea, and from fifty- six to eighty-six pounds of camphor. Jacob.

Dat. In the civil law. Base; mean ; vile ; disgraceful; Infamous ; unlawful. Applied both to things and persons. Calvin.

In Saxon law. An accusation, impeachment, or charge of any offense.

In medical jurisprudence. This is another name for locomotor ataxia. Tabetic dementia is a form of mental derangement or insanity complicated with tabes dorsalis, which generally precedes, or sometimes follows, the mental

Lat. In old English law. Touching the holy evangelists. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 16,