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  • TINSEL OF THE FEU
    In Scotch law. The loss of the feu, from allowing two years of feu duty to run into the third unpaid. Bell.
  • TIPPLING HOUSE
    A place where intoxicating drinks are sold in drams or small quantities to be drunk on the premises, am} where men resort for drinking purposes. See Leesburg v. Putnam, 103 Ga. 110, 29 S. iL 602; Morrison v. Com., 7 Dana (Ky.) 219; Patten v. Centralia, 47 111. 370; Hussey More...
  • TIPSTAFF
    In English law. An officer appointed by the marshal of the king's bench to attend upon the judges with a kind of rod or staff tipped with silver, who take into their custody all prisoners, either committed or turned over by the judges at their chambers, etc. Jacob. In American More...
  • TITHER
    One who gathers tithes.
  • TITHING
    One of the civil divisions of England, being a portion of that greater division called a "hundred." It was so called because ten freeholders with their families composed one. It is said that they were all knit together in one society, and bound to the king for the peaceable behavior More...
  • TITHING-PENNY
    In Saxon and old English law. Money paid to the sheriff by the several tithings of his county. Cowell
  • TITHES
    In English law. The tenth part of the Increase, yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock npon lands, and the personal industry of the Inhabitants. 2 Bl. Comm. 24. A species of Incorporeal hereditament, being an ecclesiastical Inheritance collateral to the estate of the land, and More...
  • TITHING-MAN
    In Saxon law. This was the name of the head or chief of a decennary. In modern English law, he is the same as an under-constable or peace-officer. In modern law. A constable. "After the introduction of justices of the peace, the offices of constable and tithing-man became so similar More...
  • TITIUS
    In Roman law. A proper name, frequently used in designating an indefinite or fictitious person, or a person referred to by way of Illustration. "Titius" and "Seius," in this use, correspond to "John Doe" and "Richard Roe," or to "A. B." and "C. D."
  • TITULADA
    In Spanish law. Title. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 5, c 3, | 2.
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