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.

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

the merits can be had. Jesse French Tiano Co. v. Porter, 134 Ala. 302, 32 South. 678, 92 Am. St. Rep. 31; Calvert v. State, 34 Neb. 616, 52 N. W. 687.

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.

Lat. In the civil law. A plea of time; a plea of lapse of time, in bar of an action. Corresponding to the plea of prescription, or the statute of limitations, in

Lat In the civil and old English law. Time in general. A time limited ; a season; e. g., tempus pcssonis, mast time in the forest.

is the relation of a tenant to the land which he holds. Hence it signifies (1) the estate of a tenant, as in the expressions “joint tenancy,” “tenancy in common ;” (2)