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  • TEAMSTER
    One who drives horses in a wagon for the purpose of carrying goods for hire. He is liable as a common carrier. Story, Bailm.
  • TECHNICAL
    Belonging or peculiar to an art or profession. Technical terms are frequently called in the books "words of art" -Technical mortgage. A true and formal mortgage, as distinguished from other instruments which, in some respects, have the character of equitable mortgages. Harrison v. Annapolis & E. R. R. Co., 50 More...
  • TEDDING
    Spreading. Tedding grass is spreading it out after it is cut in the swath. 10 East 5.
  • TEDING-PENNY
    In old English law. A small tax or allowance to the sheriff from each tithing of his county towards the .charge of keeping courts, etc. Cowell.
  • TEEP
    In Hindu law. A note of hand; a promissory note given by a native banker or money-lender to zemindars and others, to enable them to furnish government with security for the payment of their rents. Wharton.
  • TEGULA
    In the civil law. A tile. Dig. 19, 1, 18.
  • TEIND COURT
    In Scotch law. A court which has jurisdiction of matters relating to teinds, or tithes.
  • TEIND MASTERS
    Those entitled to tithes.
  • TEINDS
    In Scotch law. A term corresponding to tithes (q. v.) in English ecclesiastical law.
  • TEIINLAND
    Sax. In old English law. Land of a thane or Saxon noble; land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. Cowell; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 5.
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