This word is derived from the French tailler, and signifies liter-ally to cut. In England it is used to signify subsidies, taxes, customs, and indeed ...
evidence. The parts of a piece of wood out in two, which persons use to denote the quantity of goods supplied by one to the other. Poth. Obl. pt. 4, c...
Scotch law. Heirs of talzie or tailzie, are heirs of estates entailed. 1 Bell~s Com. 47. ...
That which may be felt or touched; it must necessarily be corporeal, but it may be real or personal. A house and a horse are, each, tangible property....
Practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff to a writ, when it came into his hands too late to be executed before the return day. 2. The sherif...
weights. An allowance in the purchase and sale of merchandise, for the weight of the box, bag, or cask, or other thing, in which the goods are packed....
Customs, duties, toll. or tribute payable upon merchandise to the general government is called tariff; the rate of customs, &c. also bears this name a...
A place of entertainment; a house kept up for the accommodation of strangers. 2. These are regulated by various local laws. For the liabilities of tav...
This term in its most extended sense includes all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, by whatever n...
practice. The act by which it is ascertained to what costs a party is entitled. 2. It is a rule that the jury must assess the damages and costs separa...
One who drives horses in a wagon for the purpose of carrying goods for hire he is liable as a common carrier. Story, Bailm. §496. ...
That which properly belongs to an art. 2. In the construction of contracts, it is a general rule that technical words are to be taken according to the...
Scotch Law. That liquid proportion of the rents or goods of the people, which is due to churchmen for performing divine service, or exercising the oth...
An officer in a bank or other institution. He is said to take that name from tallier, or one who kept a tally, because it is his duty to keep the acco...
That which is to last for a limited time; as, a temporary sta-tute, or one which is limited in its operation for a particular period of time after its...
The state or condition of a tenant; the estate held by a tenant, as a tenant at will, a tenancy for years. ...
estates. One who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any kind of title, either in fee, for life, for years, or at will. See 5 Mann. & Gr. 54; S. ...
Eng. law. One who is tenant of a mesne lord; as where A is tenant of B, and C of A; B is the lord, A the mesne lord and C tenant of the demesne. Ham. ...
One who has a less estate than a fee in land, which remains in the reversioner. He is so called because in avowries and other pleadings, it is special...
English law. The tenant of a tenant; and is so called because he has the avails or profits of the land. Ham. N. P. 892, 393. ...
Eng. law. In leases from the crown, corporations or the church, it is usual to grant a further term to the old tenants in preference to strangers, and...
contracts, pleadings. A tender is an offer to do or perform an act which the party offering, is bound to perform to the party to whom the offer is mad...
estates. In its most extensive signification tenement comprehends every thing which may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature; and not only ...
Scotch law. The name of a clause in charters of heritable rights which derives its name from its first words tenendus praedictas terras, and expresses...
conveyancing. This is a Latin word, which signifies to hold. 2. It was formerly that part of a deed which was used to express the tenure by which the ...
contracts. That part of a bond where the obligor declares himself to be held and firmly bound to the obligee, his heirs, executors, administrators and...
The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. This state was admitted into the Union by virtue of the "act for the admission of t...
Which he holds. There are two ways of stating the tenure in an action of waste. The averment is either in the tenet and the tenuit; it has a refer-enc...
pleading. This word, applied to an instrument in pleading, signifies an exact copy; it differs from purport. (q. v.) 2 Phil. Ev. 99; 2 Russ. on Cr. 36...
Which he held. When the tenancy is ended and the tenant is sued in an action of waste, the averment of tenure is in the tenuit. For a distinction betw...
estates. The manner in which lands or tenements are holden. 2. According to the English law, all lands are held mediately or immediately from the king...
A term used in, grammar to denote the distinction of time. 2. The acts of a court of justice ought to be in the present tense; as, "praeceptum est," n...
law of Scotland. A life-rent competent by law to widows who have not accepted of special provisions in the third part of the heritable subjects in whi...
construction. Word; expression speech. 2. Terms or words are characters by which we announce our sentiments, and make known to others things with whic...
contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to denote the space of time granted to the debtor for discharging his obligation; there are express ter...
estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lea...
practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session; sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to th...
This phrase is used in the English courts of equity, to signify that when a term has been created for a particular purpose, which is satisfied, and th...
A probatory term is the time during which evidence may be taken in a cause. Vide Probatory term. ...
An estate for years, (q. v.) and the time during which such estate is to be beld, are each called a term; hence the term may expire before the time, a...
In the civil law, says Spelman, this word signifies a day set to the defendant, and, in that sense, Bracton, Glanville and some others sometimes use i...
The starting point of a private way is so called. Hamm. N. P. 196. ...
The point of termination of a private way is so called. ...
One who holds lands and tenements for a term of years or, life. Litt. sect. 100; 4 Tyr. 561. ...
or improperly terre-tenant. One who has the actual possession of land; but in a more technical sense, he who is seised of the land; and, in the latter...
Engl. Iaw. A roll, catalogue or survey of lands, belonging either to a single person or a town, in which are stated the quantity of, acres, the names ...
The courts established in the territories of the United States. Vide Courts of the United States. ...
Apart of a country, separated from the rest, and subject to a particular jurisdiction. The word is derived from terreo, and is so called because the m...
That state of the mind which arises from the event or phenomenon that may serve as a prognostic of some catastrophe affright from apparent danger. 2. ...
civil law. One, who claiming an interest in the subject or thing in dispute in action between other parties, asserts his right to act with the plainti...
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