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  • THREE-DOLLAR PIECE
    A gold coin of the United States, of the value of three dollars; authorized by the seventh section of the act of February 21, 1853.
  • THRENGES
    Vassals, but not of the lowest degree; those who held lands of the chief lord.
  • THRITHING
    In Saxon and old English law. The third part of a county; a division of a county consisting of three or more hundreds. Cowell. Corrupted to the modem "riding," which Is still used in Yorkshire, 1 Bl. Comm. 116.
  • THROAT
    In medical jurisprudence. The front or anterior part of the neck. Where one was indicted for murder by "cutting the throat" of the deceased, it was held that the word "throat" was not to be confined to that part of the neck which is scientifically so called, but must be More...
  • THROUGH
    This word is sometimes equivalent to "over;" as in a statute in reference to laying out a road "through" certain grounds. Hyde Park v. Oakwoods Cemetery Ass'n, 119 111. 147, 7 N. E. 627.
  • THROW OUT
    To ignore, (a bill of indictment)
  • THRUSTING
    Within the meaning of a criminal statute, "thrusting" Is not necessarily an attack with a pointed weapon; it means pushing or driving with force, whether the point of the weapon be sharp or not State v. Lowry, 33 La. Ann. 1224.
  • THRYMSA
    A Saxon coin worth four-pence. Du Fresne.
  • THUDE-WEALD
    A woodward, or person that looks after a wood.
  • THURINGIAN CODE
    One of the "barbarian codes," as they are termed; supposed by Montesquieu to have been given by Theodoric, king of Austrasia, to the Thuringians. who were his subjects. Esprit des Lois, lib. 28, c. 1.
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