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  • TELEGRAM
    A telegraphic dispatch; a message sent by telegraph.
  • TELEGRAPH
    In the English telegraph act of 1863, the word is defined as "a wire or wires used for the purpose of telegraphic communication, with any casing, coating, tube, or pipe inclosing the same, and any apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of telegraphic communication." St 26 A 27 Vict c More...
  • TELEGRAPHIAE
    A word occasionally need in old English law to describe ancient documents or written evidence of things past. Blount
  • TELEPHONE
    In a general sense, the name "telephone" applies to any instrument or apparatus which transmits sound beyond the limits of ordinary audibility. But, since the recent discoveries in telephony, the name is technically and primarily restricted to an instrument or device which transmits sound by means of electricity and wires More...
  • TELLIGRAPHUM
    An Anglo-Saxon charter of land. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 1" p. 10.
  • TELLWORC
    That labor which a tenant was bound to do for his lord for a certain number of days.
  • TEMENTALE, OR TENEMENTALE
    A tax of two shillings upon every plowed land, a decennary.
  • TEMERE
    Lat In the civil law. Rashly; inconsiderately. A plaintiff was said temere litigare who demanded a thing out of malice, or sued without just cause, and who could show no ground or cause of action. Brissonius.
  • TEMPEST
    A violent or furious storm; a current of wind rushing with extreme violence, and usually accompanied with rain or snow. See Stover v. Insurance Co., 3 Phila. (Pa.) 39; Thistle v. Union Forwarding Co, 29 U. C. C. P. 84.
  • TELLER
    One who numbers or counts. An officer of a bank who receives or pays out money. Also one appointed to count the votes cast in a deliberative or legislative assembly or other meeting. The name was also given to certain officers formerly attached to the English exchequer. The teller is More...
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