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  • THEME
    In Saxon law. The power of having jurisdiction over naifs or villeins, with their suits or offspring, lands, goods, and chattels. Co. Litt 116a.
  • THEMMAGIUM
    A duty or acknowledgment paid by inferior tenants In respect of theme or team. Cowell.
  • THEN
    This word, as an adverb, means "at that time," referring to a time specified, either past or future. It has no power In itself to fix a time. It simply refers to a time already fixed. Mangum v. Piester, 16 S. C. 329. It may also denote a contingency, and More...
  • THENCE
    In surveying, and in descriptions of land by courses and distances, this word, preceding each course given, imports that the following course is continuous with the one before it Flagg v. Mason, 141 Mass. 66, 6 N. E. 702.
  • THEOCRACY
    Government of a state by the Immediate direction of God, (or by the assumed direction of a supposititious divinity,) or the state thus governed.
  • THEODEN
    In Saxon law. A husband-man or inferior tenant; an under-thane. Cowell.
  • THEODOSIAN CODE
    See CODEX THEODOSIANUS
  • THEOF
    In Saxon law. Offenders who1 joined in a body of seven to commit depredations. Wharton.
  • THEOWES, THEOWMEN, OR THEWS
    In feudal law. Slaves, captives, or bondmen. Spel. Feuds, c. 5.
  • THEREUPON
    At once; without interruption; without delay or lapse of time, Putnam v. Langley, 133 Mass. 205.
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