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  • THIRD
    Following next after the second; also, with reference to any legal instrument or transaction or judicial proceeding, any outsider or person not a party, to the affair nor immediately concerned in it. ------ Third opposition. In Louisiana, when an, execution is levied on property which does not belong to the More...
  • THIRDBOROUGH, OR THIRDBOROW
    An under-constable. Cowell.
  • THIRDINGS
    The third part of the corn growing on the land, due to the lord for a heriot on the death of his tenant, witH-in the the manor of Turfat, in Hereford. Blount.
  • THIRDS
    The designation, in colloquial language, of that portion of a decedents personal estate (one-third) which goes to the widow where there is also a child or chilr dren. See Yeomans v. Stevens, 2 Allen (Mass.) 350; O'Hara v. Dever, 46 Barb. (N, Y.) 614.
  • THIRLAGE
    In Scotch law. A servitude by which lands are astrieted or "thirled" to a particular mill, to which the possessors must carry the grain of the growth of the astrieted lands to be ground, for the payment of such duties as are either expressed or Implied in the constitution of More...
  • THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES
    See ARTICLES OF RELIGION
  • THIS
    When "this" and "that" refer to different things before expressed, "this" refers to the thing last mentioned, and "that" to the thing first mentioned. Russell T. Kennedy, 66 Pa. 261.
  • THIS DAY SIX MONTHS
    Fixing "this day six months," or "three months," for the next stage of a bill, is one of the modes in which the house of lords and the house of commons reject bills of which they disapprove. A bill rejected in this manner cannot be reintroduced in the same session. More...
  • THISTLE-TAKE
    It was a custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester, that if, In driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should pay a halfpenny a-piece to the lord of the fee. And at Flskerton, in Nottinghamshire, by ancient custom, More...
  • THOROUGHFARE
    The term means, according to its derivation, a street or passage through which one can fare, (travel) that is, a street or highway affording an unobstructed exit at each end into another street or public passage. If the passage is closed at one end, admitting no exit there, it is More...
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