Category: T

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.

In old English law. One who has been thrice married; one who, at different times and successively, has had three wives ; a trigamist. 3 Inst. 88.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandfather’s great-grandfather; the male ascendant in the sixth degree.

In Scotch law. The maker y or creator of a trust.

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.

One who wears a tabard or short gown; the name is still used as the title of certain bachelors of arts on the old foundation of Queen’s College, Oxford. Enc. Lond.

In Scotch law, this signifies laches in not prosecuting a legal claim, or in acquiescing in an adverse one. Mozley & Whitley.

Lat Such; such men. When, by means of challenges or any other cause, a sufficient number of unexceptionable jurors does not appear at the trial, either party may pray a “tales,” as

In old Irish law. A species of tenure, founded on ancient usage, which allotted the inheritance of lands, castles, etc., to the “oldest and worthiest man of the deceased’s name and blood.”

Subject to taxation; liable to be assessed, along with others, for a share in a tax. Persons subject to taxation are sometimes called “taxables;” so property which may be assessed for taxation

Those entitled to tithes.

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.