TENHEDED, or TIENHEOFED
In old English law. A dean. Cowell.
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In old English law. A dean. Cowell.
The number of ten men, which number, in the time of the Saxons, was called a “decennary;” and ten decennaries made what was called a “hundred.” Also a duty or tribute paid
A term of heraldry, meaning orange color. In engravings it should be represented by lines in bend sinister crossed by others bar-ways. Heralds who blazon by the names of the heavenly bodies,
A term used in pleading to denote that an exact copy is set out. 1 Chit. Crim. I/aw, 235. By the tenor of a deed, or other instrument in writing, is signified
A writ whereby tlie record of an indictment, and the process thereupon, was called out of another court Into the queen’s bench. Reg. Orig. 69.
By the tenor of these presents, i. e., the matter contained therein, or rather the intent and meaning thereof. Cowell.
A sort of ancient tax or military contribution. Wharton.
The essay or assay of bread. Blount.
In English law. The statute 9 Geo. IV. c. 14, taking Its name from Lord Tenterden, who procured its enactment, which is a species of extension of the statute of frauds, and
In English law. A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by parliament; formerly the real tenth part of nil the movables belonging to the subject. 1
A term used In stating the tenure in an action for waste done after the termination of the tenancy. See TENET.
In old English law. Tenure. Tenura est pactio contra communem feudi natnram ac rationem, in contractu interposita. Wright, Ten. 21. Tenure i
a compact contrary to the common nature and reason of the fee, put into a contract
I. Frank tenement, or freehold. (1) The military tenures (abolished, except grand serjeanty, and reduced to free socage tenures) were: Knight service proper, or tenure in chivalry; grand serjeanty: cornage. (2) Free
I. Frankalmoigne. or free alms. II. Tenure by divine service. Tenure, in its general sense, Is a mode of holding or occupying. Thus, we speak of the tenure of an office, meaning
Tn Scotch law. Dower; a widow’s right of dower, or a right to a life- estate in a third part of the lands of which her husband died seised.
In Scotch law. A widow that possesses the third part of her husband’s land, as her legal jointure. 1 Kames, Eq. pref.
A term applied in the West Indies to a person one of whose parents was white aud the other a mulatto. See Daniel v. Guy, 19 Ark. 131.
if it be for his interest to accept or reject the succession which has fallen to him. Civ. Code La. art. 1033.
Terms of the law. The name of a lexicon of the law French words and other technicalities of legal language in old times.