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  • THRAVE
    In old English law. A measure of corn or grain, consisting of twenty-four sheaves or four shocks, six sheaves to every shock. Cowell.
  • THREAD
    A middle line; a line running through the middle of a stream or road. See FILUM; FILUM AQVM; FILUM VIAE.
  • THREAT
    In criminal law. A menace; a declaration of one's purpose or intention to work injury to the person, property, or rights of another. A threat has been defined to be any menace of such a nature and extent as to unsettle the mind of the person on whom it operates, More...
  • THREATENING LETTERS
    Sending threatening letters is the name of the offense of sending letters containing threats of the kinds recognized by the statute as criminal. See People v. Griffin, 2 Barb. (N. Y.) 429.
  • THREE-DOLLAR PIECE
    A gold coin of the United States, of the value of three dollars; authorized by the seventh section of the act of February 21, 1853.
  • THRENGES
    Vassals, but not of the lowest degree; those who held lands of the chief lord.
  • THRITHING
    In Saxon and old English law. The third part of a county; a division of a county consisting of three or more hundreds. Cowell. Corrupted to the modem "riding," which Is still used in Yorkshire, 1 Bl. Comm. 116.
  • THROAT
    In medical jurisprudence. The front or anterior part of the neck. Where one was indicted for murder by "cutting the throat" of the deceased, it was held that the word "throat" was not to be confined to that part of the neck which is scientifically so called, but must be More...
  • THROUGH
    This word is sometimes equivalent to "over;" as in a statute in reference to laying out a road "through" certain grounds. Hyde Park v. Oakwoods Cemetery Ass'n, 119 111. 147, 7 N. E. 627.
  • THROW OUT
    To ignore, (a bill of indictment)
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