Category: T

The laity; secular people.

A tenant; the defendant in a real action.

In old English law. Tenure. Tenura est pactio contra communem feudi natnram ac rationem, in contractu interposita. Wright, Ten. 21. Tenure i

In English ecclesiastical practice. The time of one or two years, allowed by law for the determination of appeals. Hallifax, CivU Law, b. 3, c. 11, no. 38.

An ancient and authentic record in two volumes, in the custody of the king’s remembrancer in the exchequer, said to be compiled by John de Nevil, a justice itinerant, in the eighteenth

Lat Witnesses.

An abolished writ for citizens or burgesses to assert their right to exemption from toll. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 220.

Lat. In the civil and old European law. An aunt.

The term means, according to its derivation, a street or passage through which one can fare, (travel;) that is, a street or highway affording an unobstructed exit at each end into another

A colloquial expression for credit or trust; credit given for goods purchased.

A place tilled or cultivated; land under cultivation, as opposed to lauds lying fallow or iu pasture.

One who gathers tithes.

A sign or mark; a material evidence of the existeuce of a fact. Thus, cheating by “false tokens” implies the use of fabricated or deceitfully contrived material objects to assist the person’s

In English law. A duty imposed by parliament upon merchandise exported and imported, according to a certain rate upon every ton. Brown. In American law. A tax laid upon vessels according to

Lat. In so many words.

A poison; a toxic agent; any substance capable of producing toxica- tion or poisoning.

In old English law. A traitor; one guilty of high treason. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 21,

Lat. In old English law. A crossing of the strait, [of Dover;] a passing or sailing over from England to France. The royal passages or voyages to Gascony, Brittany, and other parts

The removal of goods or persons from one place to another, by a carrier. See Railroad Co. v. Pratt, 22 Wall. 133, 22 L. Ed. 827; Interstate Commerce Coin’n v. Brimson, 154

A treasure is a thing hidden or buried in the earth, on which no one can prove his property, and which is discovered by chance. Civil Code La. art. 3423, par. 2.