Category: T

A place or building in which stores of wealth are reposited; particularly, a place where the public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is dis- bursed to defray the expenses

The examination before a competent tribunal, according to the law of the land, of the facts or law put in issue in a cause, for the purpose of determining such issue. A

Sittings of the English court of appeal and of the high court of justice in London and Middlesex, commencing on the Tuesday after Whitsun week, and terminating on tlie 8th of August.

In English law. A customary duty or toll for weighing wool; so called because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12.

In English law. A barrister who has a preaudience in the exchequer, and also one who has a particular place in court, is so called. Brown.

Everything done contrary to justice, honesty, modesty, or good morals is said to be done with turpitude.

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

An abbreviation of “Tempore Regis Edicardi,” (in the time of King Edward,) of common occurrence in Domesday, when the valuation of manors, as it was in the time of Edward the Confessor,

Lat Silently; impliedly; tacitly.

In criminal law and torts. The act of laying hold upon an article, with or without removing the same.

Lat Notwithstanding; nevertheless ; yet.

Taxes are a ratable portion of the produce of the property and labor of the individual citizens, taken by the nation, in the exercise of its sovereign rights, for the support of

The power of any government to levy taxes.

A word occasionally used iu old English law to describe aucient documents or written evidence of things past. Blount

Lat. In the time of. Thus, the volume called “Cases tempore Ilolt” is a collection of cases adjudged in the king’s bench during the time of Lord Holt Wall. Rep. 398.

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. A time for the determination of appeals, shorter than the terminus juris, appointed by the judge. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 11, no. 36.

Lat. In old English law. Third publication or proclamation of intended marriage.

In practice. A writ containing a testatum clause; such as a testatum capias, a testatum ft. fa., and a testatum ca. sa. See TESTATUM.