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TABELLIO An officer among the Romans who reduced to writing and into ...
TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION In Louisiana this is a list of creditors of an insolvent ...
TABLES A synopsis in which many particulars are brought together in a ...
TABULA IN NAUFRAGIO, Engl. law. Literally a plank in a wreck. This figure has ...
TACIT . That which, although not expressed, is understood from the nature ...
TACIT LAW A law which derives its authority from the common consent of ...
TACK Scotch law. A contract of location by which the use ...
TACKING, Engl. law. The union of securities given at different times, so ...
TAIL An estate tail is an estate of inheritance, to a ...
TAKE . This is a technical expression which signifies to be entitled ...
TAKING, crim. torts. The act of laying hold upon an article, with ...
TALE comm. law. A denomination of money in China. In the computation ...
TALE, Eng. law. The declaration or count was anciently so called in ...
TALES DE CIRCUMSTANTIBUS, practice. Such persons as are standing round. When ever the panel ...
TALES, Eng. law. The name of a book kept in the ...
TALLAGE This word is derived from the French tailler, and signifies liter-ally ...
TALLIES evidence. The parts of a piece of wood out in ...
TALZIE, HEIR IN Scotch law. Heirs of talzie or tailzie, are heirs of estates ...
TANGIBLE PROPERTY That which may be felt or touched; it must necessarily be ...
TARDE VENIT, Practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff to ...
TARE, weights. An allowance in the purchase and sale of merchandise, for ...
TARIFF Customs, duties, toll. or tribute payable upon merchandise to the general ...
TAVERN A place of entertainment; a house kept up for the accommodation ...
TAXES This term in its most extended sense includes all contributions imposed ...
TAXING COSTS practice. The act by which it is ascertained to what costs ...
TEAMSTER . One who drives horses in a wagon for the ...
TECHNICAL That which properly belongs to an art. 2. In ...
TEINDS, Scotch Law. That liquid proportion of the rents or goods of ...
TELLER An officer in a bank or other institution. He is ...
TEMPORARY That which is to last for a limited time; as, ...
TENANCY or TENANTCY The state or condition of a tenant; the estate held by ...
TENANT estates. One who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any ...
TENANT BY THE MANNER One who has a less estate than a fee in land, ...
TENANT OF THE DEMESNE Eng. law. One who is tenant of a mesne lord; as ...
TENANT PARAVAIL, English law. The tenant of a tenant; and is so called ...
TENANT RIGHT, Eng. law. In leases from the crown, corporations or the church, ...
TENDER contracts, pleadings. A tender is an offer to do or perform ...
TENEMENT estates. In its most extensive signification tenement comprehends every thing which ...
TENENDAS, Scotch law. The name of a clause in charters of heritable ...
TENENDUM, conveyancing. This is a Latin word, which signifies to hold. ...
TENERI, contracts. That part of a bond where the obligor declares himself ...
TENET Which he holds. There are two ways of stating the ...
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TENNESSEE The name of one of the new states of the ...
TENOR, pleading. This word, applied to an instrument in pleading, signifies an ...
TENSE A term used in, grammar to denote the distinction of time. ...
TENUIT Which he held. When the tenancy is ended and the ...
TENURE, estates. The manner in which lands or tenements are holden. 2. ...
TERCE, law of Scotland. A life-rent competent by law to widows who ...
TERM ATTENDANT ON THE INHERITANCE This phrase is used in the English courts of equity, to ...
TERM FOR YEARS An estate for years, (q. v.) and the time during which ...
TERM PROBATORY A probatory term is the time during which evidence may be ...
TERM, construction. Word; expression speech. 2. Terms or words are ...
TERM, contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to ...
TERM, estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for ...
TERM, practice. The space of time during which a court holds ...
TERMINUM In the civil law, says Spelman, this word signifies a day ...
TERMINUS A QUO The starting point of a private way is so called. Hamm. ...
TERMINUS AD QUEM The point of termination of a private way is so called. ...
TERMOR One who holds lands and tenements for a term of ...
TERRE-TENANT, or improperly terre-tenant. One who has the actual possession of land; ...
TERRIER, Engl. Iaw. A roll, catalogue or survey of lands, belonging either ...
TERRITORIAL COURTS The courts established in the territories of the United States. Vide ...
TERRITORY Apart of a country, separated from the rest, and subject to ...
TERROR That state of the mind which arises from the event ...
TERTIUS INTERVENIENS civil law. One, who claiming an interest in the subject or ...
TEST Something by which to ascertain the truth respecting another thing. 7 ...
TESTACY The state or condition of dying after making a will, which ...
TESTAMENT civil law. The appointment of an executor or testamentary heir, according ...
TESTAMENTARY Belonging to a testament; as a testamentary gift; a testamen-tary guardian, ...
TESTATE One who dies having made a testament; a testator. This word ...
TESTATOR One who has made a testament or will. 2. ...
TESTATRIX A woman who makes a will or testament, is so called. ...
TESTATUM, practice. The name of a writ which is issued by ...
TESTATUM, conveyancing. That part of a deed which commences with the words ...
TESTE practice. The teste of a writ is the concluding clause, commencing ...
TESTES Witnesses. ...
TESTIMONIAL PROOF civ. law. This word is used in the same sense as ...
TESTIMONY, evidence. The statement made by a witness under oath or affirmation. ...
TESTMOIGNE This is an old and barbarous French word, signifying in the ...
TEXAS The name of one of the new states of the ...
THAINLAND, old Eng. law. The land which was granted by the ...
The name of a coin The marc-banco of Hamburg, as money of account, at the custom-house, is deemed and taken to be ...
THEFT crimes. This word is sometimes used as synonymous with larceny, (q. ...
THEFT-BOTE The act of receiving a man's goods from the thief, after ...
THEOCRACY A species of government which claims to be immediately directed by ...
THIEF, crimes. One who has been guilty of larceny or theft. ...
THING ADJUDGED That which has been decided by a final judgment, by a ...
THINGS By this word is understood every object, except man, which may ...
Third Circuit . </center> <pre>Dallas' Reports. The second, ...
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