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  • TIERCE
    L. Fr. Third Tierce metn, third hand. Britt c. 120
  • TIERCE
    A liquid measure, containing the third part of a pipe, or forty-two gallons.
  • TIGH
    In old records. A close or inclosure; a croft Cowell.
  • TIGHT
    As colloquially applied to a note, bond, mortgage, lease, etc, this term signifles that the clauses providing the creditor's remedy in case of default (as, by foreclosure, execution, distress, etc.) are summary and stringent
  • TIGNI IMMITTENDI
    Lat In the civil law. The name of a servitude which is the right of inserting a beam or timber from the wall of one house into that of a neighboring house, in order that it may rest on the latter, and that the wall of the latter may bear More...
  • TIGNUM
    Lat A civil-law term for building material; timber.
  • TIHLER
    In old Saxon law. An accusation.
  • TILLAGE
    A place tilled or cultivated; land under cultivation, as opposed to lands lying fallow or in pasture.
  • TIMBER
    Wood felled for building or other such like use. In a legal sense it generally means (in England) oak, ash, and elm, but in some parts of England, and generally in America, it is used in a wider sense, which is recognized by the law. The term "timber," as used More...
  • TIMBERLODE
    A service by which tenants were bound to carry timber felled from the woods to the lord's house. Cowell
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