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THIA

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

THIEF

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.

THINGS

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

THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES

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.

THINGUS

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

THINK

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,

THIRD-NIGHT-AWN-HINDE

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

THIRD

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

THIRDINGS

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.

THIRDS

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,

THIRLAGE

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

TICKET THIS

When “this” and “that” refer to different things before expressed, “this” refers to the thing last mentioned, and “that” to the thing first mentioned. Russell v. Kennedy, 60 Pa. 251.

THIS DAY SIX MONTHS

Fixing “this day six months,” or “three months,” for the next stage of a bill, is one of the modes in which the house of lords and the house of commons reject

THISTLE-TAKE

It was a custom within the mauor of Halton, in Chester, that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should

THOROUGHFARE

The term means, according to its derivation, a street or passage through which one can fare, (travel;) that is, a street or highway affording an unobstructed exit at each end into another

THRAVE

In old English law. A measure of corn or grain, consisting of twenty- four sheaves or four shocks, six sheaves to every shock. Cowell.

THREAD

A middle line; a line running through the middle of a stream or road. See FILUM; FILUM AQU.E; FILUM VI^E.

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