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  • TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION
    In Louisiana. A list of creditors of an insolvent estate, stating what each is entitled to. Taylor v. Hollander, 4 Mart N. S. (La.) 536.
  • TABULA
    Lat. In the civil law. A table or tablet; a thin sheet of wood, which, when covered with wax, was used for writing.
  • TABULA IN NAUFRAGIO
    Lat A plank in a shipwreck. This phrase is used metaphorically to designate the power subsisting in a third mortgagee, who took without notice of the second mortgage, to acquire-the flrst Incumbrance, attach it to his own, and thus squeeze out and get satisfaction, before the second is admitted to More...
  • TABULAE
    Lat In Roman law. Tables. Writings of any kind used as evidences of a transaction. Brissonius. -Tabulae nuptlales. In the civil law. A written record of a marriage; or the agreement as to the dos.
  • TABULARIUS
    Lat A notary, or tabellio. Calvin.
  • TAC, TAK
    In old records. A kind of customary payment by a tenant. Cowell. -Tao free. In old records. Free from the common duty or imposition of tac. Cowell.
  • TACIT
    Silent; not expressed; implied or inferred; manifested by the refraining from contradiction or objection; inferred from the situation and circumstances, in the absence of express matter. Thus, tacit consent is consent Inferred from the fact that the party kept silence when he had an opportunity to forbid or refuse, -Tacit More...
  • TACITE
    Lat Silently; impliedly; tacitly.
  • TACITURNITY
    In Scotch law, this signifies laches in not prosecuting a legal claim, or in acquiescing in an adverse one. Mozley A Whitley.
  • TACK
    v. To annex some junior lien to a flrst Hen, thereby acquiring priority over an intermediate one. See TACKING.
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