TENSERI2E
A sort of ancient tax or military contribution. Wharton.
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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.
This name is sometimes given to property of such a nature that its duration is not perpetual or indefinite, but is limited or liable to terminate upon the happening of an event
Societies, in England, where the members commence their monthly contributions on a particular day, and continue to pay them until the realization of shares to a given amount for each member, by
L. Fr. To determine. See OYEB AND TEBMINEB.
Lat. Ends; bounds; limiting or terminating points.
In Spanish law. A common ; common land. Common because of vicinage. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6,
A day given to a defendant. Spelman.