When, at an election, neither candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, but each has the same number, there is said to be a “tie.” So when the number of votes

Pr. Such. Nul tiel record, no such record.

Span. A time of inability; a time when the person is not able to pay his debts, (when, for instance, he may not alienate property to the prejudice of his creditors.) The

Fr. Third. Tierce mcin, third hand. Britt. c. 120.

A liquid measure, containing the third part of a pipe, or forty-two gallons. i

In old records. A close or Inclosure; a croft Cowell.

As colloquially applied to a note, bond, mortgage, lease, etc., this term signi- fies that the clauses providing the creditor’s remedy in case of default (as, by fore- closure, execution, distress, etc.)

Lat In the Civil law. The name of a servitude which is the right of inserting a beam or timber from the wall of one house into that of a neighboring house,

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.