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TRAM-WAYS

Rails for conveyance of traffic along a road not owned, as a railway is, by those who lay down the rails and convey the traffic. Wharton.

TRANSITUS

Lat. Passage from one place to another; transit. In transitu, on the passage, transit, or way. 2 Kent, Comm. 513.

TRAVERSE

In the language of pleading, a traverse signifies a denial. Thus, where a defendant denies any material allegation of fact in the plaintiff’s declaration, he is said to traverse it. and the

TREET

In old English law. Fine wheat

TRICESIMA

An ancient custom in a borough in the county of Hereford, so called because thirty burgesses paid Id. rent for their houses to the bishop, who was lord of the manor. Wharton.

TRIPARTITE

In conveyancing. Of three parts; a term applied to an indenture to which there are three several parties, (of the first, second, and third parts,) and which is executed in triplicate.

TRUCE

In international law. A suspension or temporary cessation of hostilities by agreement between belligerent powers; an armistice. Wheat. Int. Law, 442.

TUMBREL

A castigatory, trebucket, or ducking-stool, anciently used as a punish- ment for common scolds.

TUTEUR

In French law. A kind of guardian.

TAILZIE

In Scotch law. An entail. A tailzied fee is that which the owner, by exer- cising his inherent right of disposing of his property, settles upon others than those to whom it

TALTARUM’S CASE

A case reported In Yearb. 12 Edw. IV. 19-21, which is regarded as having established the foundation of common recoveries.

TAVERN-KEEPER

One who keeps a tavern. One who keeps an Inn; an innkeeper.

TEDDING

Spreading. Tedding grass is spreading it out after it is cut in the swath. 10 East, 5.

TEMPLARS

A religious order of knighthood, instituted about the year 1110, and so called because the members dwelt iu a part of the temple of Jerusalem, aud not far from the sepulclier of

TEND

In old English law. To tender or offer. Cowell.

TENSERI2E

A sort of ancient tax or military contribution. Wharton.

TERMINO

In Spanish law. A common ; common land. Common because of vicinage. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6,

TERRITORY

A part of a country separated from the rest, and subject to a particular jurisdiction. In American law. A portion of the United States, not within the limits of any state, which

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