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  • 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.
  • TALESMAN
    A person summoned to act as a juror from among the by-standers in the court. Linehan v. State, 113 Ala. 70, 21 South. 497; Shields v. Niagara County Sav. Bank, 5 Thonip. A C. (N. Y.) 587.
  • TALIO
    Lat. In tHe civil law. Like for like; punishment in the same kind; the punishment of an injury by an act of the same kind, as an eye for an eye, a limb for a limb, etc. Calvin. Talis interpretatio semper flenda est, nt evitetnr absnrdnm et inoonveniens, et ne More...
  • TALITER PROCESSUM EST
    Upon pleading the judgment of an inferior court the proceedings preliminary to such judgment, and on which the same was founded, must to some extent appear in the pleading, but the rule is that they may be alleged with a general allegation that "such proceedings were had," instead of a More...
  • TALLAGE
    A word used metaphorically for a share of a man's substance paid by way of tribute, toll, or tax, being derived from tbe French "tailler," which signifles to cut a piece out of the whole. Cowell. See State v. Switzler, 143 Mo. 287, 45 S. W. 245, 40 L. R. More...
  • TALLAGERS
    Tax or toll gatherers; mentioned by Chaucer.
  • TALLAGIUM
    L. Lat. A terra Including all taxes. 42 Inst. 532; People v. Brooklyn, 9 Barb. (N. Y.) 551; Bernards Tp. v. Allen, 61 N. J. Law. 228, 39 Atl. 716.-Tallaginm facere. To give up accounts in the exchequer, where the method of accounting was by tallies.
  • TELLATIO
    A keeping account by tallies. Cowell.
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