In Hindu law. A note of hand; a promissory note given by a native banker or money-lender to zemindars and others, to enable them to furnish government with se- curity for the

In the civil law. A tile. Dig. 19, 1, 18.

In Scotch law. A court which has jurisdiction of matters relating to tcinds, or tithes.

Those entitled to tithes.

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

Sax. In old English law. Land of a thane or Saxon noble; land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. Cowell; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 5.

A telegraphic dispatch ; a message sent by telegraph.

In a general sense, the name “telephone” applies to any instrument or apparatus which transmits sound beyond the limits of ordinary audibility. But, since the recent discoveries in telephony, tlie name is

One who numbers or counts. An officer of a bank who receives or pays out money. Also one appointed to count the votes cast in a deliberative or legislative as- sembly or

An Anglo-Saxon charter of land. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 1, p. 10.

That labor which a tenant was bound to do for his lord for a certain number of days.

A tax of two shillings upon every plow-land, a decennary.

Lat In the civil law. Rashly; inconsiderately. A plaintiff was said tcmcre liligare who demanded a thing out of malice, or sued without just cause, and who could show no ground or

A violent or furious storm; a current of wind rushing with extreme vio- lence, and usually accompanied with rain or snow. See Stover v. Insurance Co., 3 Phila. (Pa.) 30; Thistle v.

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

Two English inns of court, thus called because anciently the dwelling place of the Knights Templar. On the suppression of the order, they were purchased by some professors of the common law,

The peers of England ; the bishops are not in strictness held to be peers, but merely lords of parliament. 2 Steph. Comm. 330, 345.

Lat. In the civil law. Temporary ; limited to a certain time.

In English law. The lay fees of bishops, with which their churches are endowed or permitted to be endowed by the liberality of the sovereign, and in virtue of which tliey become

The laity; secular people.