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  • THWERTNICK
    In old English law. The custom of giving entertainments to a sheriff, etc., for three nights.
  • TICK
    A colloquial expression for credit or trust; credit given for goods purchased
  • TICKET
    In contracts. A slip of paper containing a certificate that the person to whom it is issued, or the holder, is entitled to some right or privilege therein mentioned or described; such, for example, are railroad tickets, theater tickets, pawn tickets, lottery tickets, etc. See Allaire v. Howell Works Co., More...
  • TIDAL
    In order that a river may be "tidal" at a given spot, it may not be necessary that the water should be salt, but the spot must be one where the tide, in the ordinary and regular course of things, flows and reflows. 8 Q. B. Div. 630.
  • TIDE
    The ebb and flow of the sea. See Baird v. Campbell, 67 App. Div. 104, 73 N. 1 Supp. 617. -Tide lands. See LAND.-Tide-water. Water which falls and rises with the ebb and flow of the tide. The term is not usually applied to the open sea, but to coves, More...
  • TIDESMAN
    in English law, are certain officers of the custom-house, appointed to watch or attend upon ships till the customs are paid; and they are so called because they go aboard the ships at their arrival in the mouth of the Thames, and come up with the tide. Jacob.
  • TIE
    v. To bind. "The parson is not tied to find the parish clerk." 1 Leon. 04.
  • TIE
    n. When, at an election, neither candidate receives a majority of the votes cast but each has the same number, there is said to be a "tie." So when the number of votes cast in favor of any measure, in a legislative or deliberative body, is equal to the number More...
  • TIEL
    L. Pr. Such. Nul tiel record, no such record.
  • TIEMPO INHABIL
    Span. A time of Inability; a time when the person is not able to pay his debts, (when, for instance, he may not alienate property to the prejudice of his creditors.) The term is used In Louisiana. Brown v. Kenner, 8 Mart. O. S. (La.) 279*; Thorn v. Morgan, 4 More...
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