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  • TERRARIUS
    In old English law. A landholder.
  • TERRE-TENANT
    He who is literally in the occupation or possession of the land, as distinguished from the owner out of possession. But in a more technical sense, the person who is seised of the land, though not in actual occupancy of It, and locally, in Pennsylvania, one who purchases and takes More...
  • TERRIER
    In English law. A land-roll or survey of lands, containing the quantity of acres, tenants' names, and such like; and in the exchequer there is a terrier of all the glebe lands In England, made about 1338. In general, an ecclesiastical terrier contains a detail of the temporal possessions of More...
  • TERRIS BONIS ET CATALLIS REHABENDIS POST PURGATIONEM
    A writ for a clerk to recover his lands, goods, and chattels, formerly seized, after he had cleared himself of the felony of which he was accused, and delivered to his ordinary to be purged. Reg. Orig.
  • TERRIS ET CATALLIS TENTIS ULTRA DEBITUM LEVATUM
    A judicial writ for the restoring of lands or goods to a debtor who is distrained above the amount of the debt Reg. Jud.
  • TERRIS LEBERANDIS
    A writ that lay for a man convicted by attaint to bring the record and process before the king, and take a fine for his imprisonment and then to deliver to him his lands and tenements again, and release him of the strip and waste. Reg. Orig. 232. Also it More...
  • TERRITORIAL, TERRITORIALITY
    These terms are used to signify connection with, or limitation with reference to, a particular country or territory. Thus, "territorial law" is the correct expression for the law of a particular country or state, aitnough "municipal law" is more common. "Territorial waters" are that part of the sea adjacent to More...
  • TERRITORIAL COURTS
    The courts established In the territories of the United States.
  • TERRITORY
    A part of a country separated from the rest, and subject to a particular jurisdiction. In American law. A portion of the United States, not within the limits of any state, which has not yet been admitted as a state of the Union, but is organized, with a separate legislature, More...
  • TERROR
    Alarm; fright; dread; the state of mind induced by the apprehension of hurt from some hostile or threatening event or manifestation; fear caused by the appearance of danger. In an indictment for riot, it must be- charged that the acts done were to the terror of the people." See Arto More...
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