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  • TANTO,RIGHT OF
    In Mexican law. The right enjoyed by an usufructuary of property, of buying the property at the same price at which the owner offers it to any other person, or Is willing to take from another. Civ. Code Mex. art 992. Tantnm bona Talent, quantum Tend! poasnnt. Shep. Touch. 142. More...
  • TARDE VENIT
    Lat. In practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff to a writ, when it came into his hands too late to be executed before the return-day.
  • TARE
    A deficiency in the weight or quantity of merchandise by - reason of the Weight of the box, cask, bag, or other receptacle which contains It and is weighed with it. Also an allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer, on More...
  • TARIFF
    A cartel of commerce, a book of rates, a table or catalogue, drawn usually In alphabetical order, containing the names of several kinds of merchandise, with the duties or customs to be paid for the same, as settled by authority, or agreed on between the several princes and states that More...
  • TASSUM
    In old English law. A heap; a hay-mow, or hay-stack. Faenum in tassis, hay In stacks. Reg. Orig. 96.
  • TATH
    In the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, the lords of manors anciently claimed the privilege of having their tenants' flocks or sheep brought at night upon their own demesne lands, there to be folded for the Improvement of the ground, which liberty was called by the name of the "tath." More...
  • TAURI LIBERI LIBERTAS
    Lat. A common bull; because he was free to all the tenants within such a manor, liberty, etc.
  • TAUTOLOGY
    Describing tbe same thing twice in one sentence In equivalent terms; a fault in rhetoric It differs from repetition or iteration, which is repeating the same sentence in the same or equivalent terms; the latter is sometimes either excusable or necessary in an argument or address; the former (tautology) never. More...
  • TAVERN
    A place of entertainment; a house kept up for the accommodation of strangers. Originally, a house 'for the retailing of liquors to be drunk on the spot Webster. The word "tavern," in a charter provision authorizing municipal authorities to "license and regulate taverns," includes hotels. "Tavern," "hotel," and "public house" More...
  • TAVERN-KEEPER
    One who keeps a tavern. One who keeps an inn; an innkeeper.
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