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  • TUERTO
    In Spanish law. Tort Las Partidas, pt 7, tit 6, L 5.
  • TUG
    A steam vessel built for towing; synonymous with "tow-boat".
  • TULLIANUM
    Lat In Roman law. That part of a prison which was under ground Supposed to be so called from Servius Tullius, who built that part of the flrst prison in Rome. Adams, Rom. Ant 290.
  • TUMBREL
    A castigatory, trebucket, or ducking-stool, anciently used as a punishment for common scolds.
  • TUMULTUOUS PETITIONING
    Under St 18 Car. II. St 1, c 5, this was a misdemeanor, and consisted in more than twenty persons signing any petition to the crown or either house of parliament for the alteration of matters established by law in church or state, unless the contents thereof had been approved More...
  • TUN
    A measure of wine or oil, containing four hogsheads.
  • TUNGREVE
    A town-reeve or ballliff. Cowell.
  • TURBA
    Lat In the civil law. A multitude ; a crowd or mob; a tumultuous assembly of persons. Said to consist of ten or fifteen, at the least. Calvin.
  • TURBARY
    Turbary, or common of turbary, is the right or liberty of digging turf upon another man's ground Brown.
  • TURN, OR TOURN
    The great court-leet of the county, as the old county court was the court-baron. Of this the sheriff is judge, and the court is incident to his office; wherefore it is called the "sheriff's tourn;" and it had its name originally from the sheriff making a turn of circuit about More...
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