An annual payment made to a superior in Scotland, instead of the duties due to him under the tenure of ward-holding. Abolished. Wharton.

In old English law. A royalty or privilege granted, by royal charter, to a lord of a manor, for the having, restraining, and judging of bondmen and villeins, with their children, goods,

Within the meaning of an exemption law, a “team” consists of either one or two horses, with their harness and the vehicle to which they are customarily attached for use. Wilcox v.

Within the meaning of an exemption law, this term means work done by a team as a substantial part of a man’s business; as in farming, staging, express carrying, drawing of freight,

One who drives horses in a wagon for the purpose of carrying goods for hire. He is liable as a common carrier. Story, Bailm.

Belonging or peculiar to an art or profession. Technical terms are frequently called in the books “words of art.”

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

In old English law. A small tax or allowance to the sheriff from each tithing of his county towards the charge of keeping courts, etc. Cowell.

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.