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.

One of the civil divisions of England, being a portion of that greater di- vision called a “hundred.” It was so called because ten freeholders with their families composed one. It Is

In Saxon law. Tills was the name of the head or chief of a decennary. In modern English law, he is the same as an under-coustable or peace-of- ficer. In modern law.

In Saxon and old English law. Money paid to the sheriff by the several tithings of his county. Cowell.

In Roman law. A proper name, frequently used in designating an indefinite or fictitious person, or a person referred to by way of illustration. “Titius” and “Seius,” in this use, correspond to

The radical meaning of this word appears to be that of a mark, style, or designation; a distinctive appellation; the way by which anything is known. Thus, in the law of persons,

title to lands.

In Spanish law. Title. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 5, c. 3,

Persons who in Scotland, after the Reformation, obtained grants from the crown of the monasteries and priories then erected into temporal lordships. Thus the titles formerly held by the religious houses, as

Lat. In the civil law. Title ; the source or ground of possession ; the means whereby possession of a thing is acquired, whether such possession be lawful or not. In old

The words in a conveyance which show the estate intended to be conveyed. Thus, in a conveyance of land in fee-simple, the grant is to “A. and his heirs, to have and

In feudal law. A towel. There is a tenure of lands by the service of waiting with a towel at the king’s coronation. Cow- ell. TOBACCONIST. Any person, firm, or corporation whose

A place or piece of ground on which a house formerly stood, which has been destroyed by accident or decay. 2 Broom & II. Comm. 17.