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  • TEXT-BOOK
    A legal treatise which lays down principles or collects decisions on any branch of the law.
  • TEXTUS ROFFENSIS
    In old English law. The Rochester text. An ancient manuscript containing many of the Saxon laws, and the rights, customs, tenures, etc., of the church of Rochester, drawn up by Ernulph, bishop of that see from A. D. 1114 to 1124. Cowell.
  • THALWEG
    German. A term used In topography to designate a line representing the deepest part of a continuous depression in the surface, such as a watercourse; hence the middle of the deepest part of the channel of a river or other stream. See Iowa v. Illinois, 147 U. S. 1, 13 More...
  • THANAGE OF THE KING
    A certain pait of the king's land or property, of which the ruler or governor was called "thane." Cowell.
  • THANE
    An Anglo-Saxon nobleman; an old title of honor, perhaps equivalent to "baron." There were two orders of thanes, the king's thanes and the ordinary thanes. Soon after the Conquest this name was disused. Cowell.
  • THANELANDS
    Such lands as were granted by charter of the Saxon kings to their thanes with all immunities, except from the trinoda neeessitas. Cowell.
  • THANESHIP
    The office and dignity of a thane; the seigniory of a thane. That which I may defeat by my entry I make good by my confirmation. Co. Litt. 300.
  • THAVIES INN
    An inn of chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY
  • THE
    An article which particularizes the subject spoken of. "Grammatical niceties 'should not be resorted to without necessity; but it would be extending liberality to an unwarrantable length to confound the articles 'a' and 'the.' The most unlettered persons understand that 'a' is indefinite, but 'the' refers to a certain object." More...
  • THEATER
    Any edifice used for the purpose of dramatic or operatic or other representations, plays, or performances, for admission to which entrance-money is received, not including halls rented or used occasionally for concerts or theatrical representations. Act Cong. July 13, 1866, ? 9 (14 St at Large, 126). And see Bell More...
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