Lat. A civil-law term for building material; timber.

In old Saxon law. An accusation.

A place tilled or cultivated; land under cultivation, as opposed to lauds lying fallow or iu pasture.

Wood felled for building or other such like use. In a legal sense it generally means (in England) oak, ash. and elm, but in some parts of England, and generally in America,

A service by which tenants were bound to carry timber felled from the woods to the lord’s house. Cowell. TIME 1156 TIPSTAFF

The measure of duration. The word is expressive both of a precise point or terminus and of an interval between two points. In pleading. A poiut in or space of duration at

An aristocracy of property; government by men of property who are possessed of a certain income. Timores vani sunt sestimandi qui non cadunt in constantem virum. 7 Coke, 17. Fears which do

is a custom regulating the manner in which tin is obtained from waste-land, or land which has formerly been waste-land, within certain districts in Corn- wall and Devon. The custom is described

L. Fr. A place where justice was administered. Kelham.

Sax. In old forest law. A petty ofiicer of the forest who had the care of vert aud venison by night, and performed other servile duties.

In old records. Brush-wood and thorns for fencing and hedging. Cowell; Blount.

The ancient parliament or annual convention in the Isle of Mau, held upou Midsummer-day, at St John’s chapel. Cowell.

Fishermen who destroyed the young fry ou the river Thames by nets and unlawful engines. Cowell.

In old Scotch law. The sea-mark; high-water mark. Tide-mouth. Skene.

A tribute paid for the liberty of digging in tiu-miues. Cowell.

In Scotch law. The loss of the feu, from allowing two years of feu duty to run iuto the third unpaid. Bell.

A place where intoxicating driuks are sold in drams or small quantities to be drunk on the premises, and where men resort for drinking purposes. See Leesburg v. Putuam, 103 Ga. 110,

In English law. An officer appointed by the marshal of the king’s bench to attend upon the judges with a kind of rod or staff tipped with silver, who take iuto their

One who gathers tithes.

In English law. The tenth part of the increase, yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants. 2 Rl. Conuu.