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  • TAILAGE
    A piece cut out of the whole; a share of one's substance paid by way of tribute; a toll or tax. Cowell.
  • TAILLE
    Fr. In old French law. A tax or assessment levied by the king, or by any great lord, upon his subjects, usually taking the form of an imposition upon the owners of real estate. Brande. In old English law. The fee which la opposed to fee-simple, because it is so More...
  • TAILZIE
    In Scotch law. An entail. A tailzied fee is that which the owner, by exercising his inherent right of disposing of his property, settles upon others than those to whom it would have descended toy law. 1 Forb. Inst pt 2, p. 101.
  • TAINT
    A conviction of felony, or the person so convicted. Cowell.
  • TAKER
    One who takes or acquires; particularly, one who takes an estate by devise. When an estate is granted subject to a remainder or executory devise, the devisee of the immediate Interest is called the "first taker."
  • TAKE
    1. To lay hold of; to gain or receive into possession; to seize; to deprive one of the possession of; to assume ownership. Thus, it is a constitutional provision that a man's property shall not be taken for public uses without just compensation. Evansville A C. R. Co. v. Dick, More...
  • TAKING
    In criminal law and torts. The act of laying hold upon an article, with or without removing the same.
  • TALE
    In old pleading. The plaintiff's count, declaration, or narrative of his case 8 Bl. Comm. 293. The count or counting of money. Said to be derived from the same root as "tally.". Cowell. Whence also the modern word "teller".
  • TALES
    Lat Such; such men. When, by means of challenges or any other cause, a sufficient number of unexceptionable Jurors does not appear at the trial, either party may pray a "tales," as it is termed; that Is, a supply of such men as are summoned on the flrst panel in More...
  • TALES DE CIRCUMSTANTIBUS
    So many of the by-standers. The emphatic words of the old writ awarded to the sheriff to make up a deficiency of jurors out of the persons present in court 8 Bl. Comm. 365.
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