Category: T

An allowance made for the water or dust that may be mixed with any com- modity. It differs from tare, (q. v.)

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandson’s or great-granddaughter’s great- grandson. A male descendant iu the sixth degree. Inst. 3, 6, 4.

Lat. In old English law. A trithing man or constable of three hundred. Cowell.

A word occasionally, though rarely, used as a designation of the creator, donor, or founder of a trust

This phrase means that a person whose estate is divested by usurpation cannot expel the possessor by mere entry, but must have recourse to an action, either possessory or droitural. Mozley &

A writ issued under the St. 18 & 19 Vict. c. G7, for summary procedure on bills of exchange and promissory notes, abolished by rule of court in 18S0. Wharton.

Lat In Roman law. A tablet. Used in voting, and in giving the verdict of juries; and, when written upon, commonly translated “ballot” The laws which introduced and regulated the mode of

To annex some junior lien to a first lien, thereby acquiring priority over an intermediate one. See TACKING.

So many’ of the by-standers. The emphatic words of the old writ awarded to the sheriff to make up a deficiency of jurors out of the persons present in court. 3 Bl.

Span. In Spanish law. Preemption. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 2, c. 3.

In old European law. Soldiers of a garrison or lieet, assigned to a certain station. Spelman.

In Scotch law. A term corresponding to tithes (q. v.) in English ecclesias- tical law.

That which is to last for a limited time only, as distinguished from that which is perpetual, or indefinite, in its duration. Thus, temporary alimony is granted for the support of the

A writ that formerly lay for hiiu to whom a disseisor had alienated the land whereof he disseised another, that he should not be molested in assize for damages, if the disseisor

a compact contrary to the common nature and reason of the fee, put into a contract

He that holds lands or tenements for a term of years or life. But we generally confine the application of the word to a person entitled for a term of years. Mozley

A person Is said to be testable when he has capacity to make a will; a man of twenty-one years of age and of sane mind is testable.

In conveyancing. That clause of a deed or instrument with which it concludes: “In witness whereof, the parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals.”

The toll-man or officer who receives toll. Cowell.

One who has been guilty of larceny or theft The term covers both compound and simple larceny. America Ins. Co. v. Bryan, 1 Ilill (N. Y.) 25.