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  • THIRLAGE
    In Scotch law. A servitude by which lands are astrieted or "thirled" to a particular mill, to which the possessors must carry the grain of the growth of the astrieted lands to be ground, for the payment of such duties as are either expressed or Implied in the constitution of More...
  • THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES
    See ARTICLES OF RELIGION
  • THIS
    When "this" and "that" refer to different things before expressed, "this" refers to the thing last mentioned, and "that" to the thing first mentioned. Russell T. Kennedy, 66 Pa. 261.
  • THIS DAY SIX MONTHS
    Fixing "this day six months," or "three months," for the next stage of a bill, is one of the modes in which the house of lords and the house of commons reject bills of which they disapprove. A bill rejected in this manner cannot be reintroduced in the same session. More...
  • THISTLE-TAKE
    It was a custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester, that if, In driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should pay a halfpenny a-piece to the lord of the fee. And at Flskerton, in Nottinghamshire, by ancient custom, More...
  • THOROUGHFARE
    The term means, according to its derivation, a street or passage through which one can fare, (travel) that is, a street or highway affording an unobstructed exit at each end into another street or public passage. If the passage is closed at one end, admitting no exit there, it is More...
  • THRAVE
    In old English law. A measure of corn or grain, consisting of twenty-four sheaves or four shocks, six sheaves to every shock. Cowell.
  • THREAD
    A middle line; a line running through the middle of a stream or road. See FILUM; FILUM AQVM; FILUM VIAE.
  • THREAT
    In criminal law. A menace; a declaration of one's purpose or intention to work injury to the person, property, or rights of another. A threat has been defined to be any menace of such a nature and extent as to unsettle the mind of the person on whom it operates, More...
  • THREATENING LETTERS
    Sending threatening letters is the name of the offense of sending letters containing threats of the kinds recognized by the statute as criminal. See People v. Griffin, 2 Barb. (N. Y.) 429.
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