See CODEX TUEODOSIANUS.

In Saxon law. Offenders who joined in a body of seven to commit depreda- tions. Wharton.

In feudal law. Slaves, captives, or bondmen. Spel. Feuds, c. 5.

At once; without interruption ; without delay or lapse of time. Putnam v. Langley, 133 Mass. 205.

The treasury; a treasure.

A law-maker; a lawgiver.

A tithing.

Lat. In the civil and old European law. An aunt.

One who has been guilty of larceny or theft The term covers both compound and simple larceny. America Ins. Co. v. Bryan, 1 Ilill (N. Y.) 25.

The most general denomination of the subjects of property, as contra- distinguished from persons. 2 Bl. Comm. 16. The word “estate” in general is applicable to anything of which riches or fortune

persons, things, and actions. Civ. Code La. art. 448 Such permanent objects, not being persons, as are sensible, or perceptible through the senses. Aust. Jur.

In Saxon law. A thane or nobleman; knight or freeman. Cowell.

In a special finding by a jury, this word is equivalent to “believe.” and ex- presses the conclusion of the jury with sufficient positiveness. Martin v. Central Iowa Ry. Co., 59 Iowa,

By the laws of St. Edward the Confessor, if any man lay a third night in an inn, he was called a “third-night-awn-hinde,” and his host was answerable for him if he

Following next after the second ; also, with reference to any legal In- strument or transaction or judicial proceeding, any outsider or person not a party to the affair nor immediately concerned

An uuder-constable. Cowell.

The third part of the corn growing on the land, due to the lord for a heriot on the death of his tenant, within the the manor of Turfat, in Hereford. Blount.

The designation, In colloquial language, of that portion of a decedent’s personal estate (one-tliird) which goes to the widow where there is also a child or chil- dreu. See Yeomans v. Stevens,

In Scotch law. A servitude by which lands are astricted or “thirled” to a particular mill, to which the possessors must carry the grain of the growth of the astricted lands to

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