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  • TINEWALD
    The ancient parliament or annual convention in the. Isle of Man, held upon Midsummer-day, at St John's. Cowell.
  • TINKERMEN
    Fishermen who destroyed the young fry on the river Thames by nets and unlawful engines. Cowell. J
  • TENNELLUS
    In old Scotch law. The sea-mark; high-water mark. Tide-month. Skene.
  • TINPENNY
    A tribute paid for the liberty of digging in tin-mines. Cowell.
  • TINSEL OF THE FEU
    In Scotch law. The loss of the feu, from allowing two years of feu duty to run into the third unpaid. Bell.
  • TIPPLING HOUSE
    A place where intoxicating drinks are sold in drams or small quantities to be drunk on the premises, am} where men resort for drinking purposes. See Leesburg v. Putnam, 103 Ga. 110, 29 S. iL 602; Morrison v. Com., 7 Dana (Ky.) 219; Patten v. Centralia, 47 111. 370; Hussey More...
  • TIPSTAFF
    In English law. An officer appointed by the marshal of the king's bench to attend upon the judges with a kind of rod or staff tipped with silver, who take into their custody all prisoners, either committed or turned over by the judges at their chambers, etc. Jacob. In American More...
  • TITHER
    One who gathers tithes.
  • TITHING
    One of the civil divisions of England, being a portion of that greater division called a "hundred." It was so called because ten freeholders with their families composed one. It is said that they were all knit together in one society, and bound to the king for the peaceable behavior More...
  • TITHING-PENNY
    In Saxon and old English law. Money paid to the sheriff by the several tithings of his county. Cowell
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