A castigatory, trebucket, or ducking-stool, anciently used as a punish- ment for common scolds.

Under St. 13 Car. II. St. 1, c.

A measure of wine or oil, containing four hogsheads.

A town-reeve or bailiff. Cowell.

Lat. In the civil law. a. multitude ; a crowd or mob; a tumultuous assembly of persons. Said to consist of ten or fifteen, at the least. Calvin.

Turbary, or common of turbary, is the right or liberty of digging turf upon another man’s ground. Brown.

The great court-leet of the county, as the old county court was the court-baron. Of this the sheriff is judge, and the court is incident to his office; wherefore it is called

This phrase means that a person whose estate is divested by usurpation cannot expel the possessor by mere entry, but must have recourse to an action, either possessory or droitural. Mozley &

A person, under the superintendence of a jailer, who has the charge of the keys of the prison, for the purpose of opening and fastening the doors.

A gate set across a road, to stop travelers and carriages until toll is paid for the privilege of passage thereon.

Dat. In the civil law. Base; mean ; vile ; disgraceful; Infamous ; unlawful. Applied both to things and persons. Calvin.

Lat. Baseness; infamy; immorality; turpitude. Tuta est custodia quae sibimet cre- ditur. Ilob. 340. That guardianship is secure which is intrusted to itself alone.

Lat. In the civil law. Tutelage: that species of guardianship which continued to the age of puberty; the guardian being called “tutor,” and the ward, “pu- pillus.” 1 Dom. Civil Law, b.

Lat. In the civil law. An action of tutelage; an action which lay for a ward or pupil, on the termination of tutelage, against the tutor or guardian, to compel au account

Guardianship; state of being under a guardian.

Lat. In the civil law. To render an account of tutelage. Calvin. Tutelam reposcere, to demand an account of tutelage.

In French law. A kind of guardian.

In the civil law. This term corresponds nearly to “guardian.” (f. c., a person appointed to have the care of the person of a minor and the administration of his estate,) except

The office and power of a tutor.

A female tutor.