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  • TESTIMONIUM CLAUSE
    In conveyancing. That clause of a deed or instrument with which it concludes: "In witness whereof, the parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals."
  • TESTIMONY
    Evidence of a witness; evidence given by a witness, under oath or affirmation; as distinguished from evidence derived from writings, and other sources. Testimony is not synonymous with evidence. It is but a species, a class, or kind of evidence. Testimony is the evidence given by witnesses. Evidence is whatever More...
  • TESTIS
    Lat A witness; one who gives evidence In court or who witnesses a document Testis de visa praeponderat aliis. 4 Inst 279. An eye-witness is preferred to others. Testis lnpanaris snffieit ad factum in lupanari. Moore, 817. A lewd person is a sufficient witness to an act committed in a More...
  • TESTMOIGNE
    An old law French term, denoting evidence or testimony or a witness. Testmoignes ne poent testifier le negative, mes raffirmative. Witnesses cannot testify to a negative; they must testify to an affirmative. 4 Inst. 279.
  • TEXT-BOOK
    A legal treatise which lays down principles or collects decisions on any branch of the law.
  • TEXTUS ROFFENSIS
    In old English law. The Rochester text. An ancient manuscript containing many of the Saxon laws, and the rights, customs, tenures, etc., of the church of Rochester, drawn up by Ernulph, bishop of that see from A. D. 1114 to 1124. Cowell.
  • THALWEG
    German. A term used In topography to designate a line representing the deepest part of a continuous depression in the surface, such as a watercourse; hence the middle of the deepest part of the channel of a river or other stream. See Iowa v. Illinois, 147 U. S. 1, 13 More...
  • THANAGE OF THE KING
    A certain pait of the king's land or property, of which the ruler or governor was called "thane." Cowell.
  • THANE
    An Anglo-Saxon nobleman; an old title of honor, perhaps equivalent to "baron." There were two orders of thanes, the king's thanes and the ordinary thanes. Soon after the Conquest this name was disused. Cowell.
  • THANELANDS
    Such lands as were granted by charter of the Saxon kings to their thanes with all immunities, except from the trinoda neeessitas. Cowell.
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