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  • TUTEUR
    In French law. A kind of guardian. -----------Tuteur ofificieux. A person over fifty years of age may be appointed a tutor of this sort to a child over fifteen years of age, with the consent of the parents of such child, or, in their default, the conseil de famille. The More...
  • TUTOR
    In the civil law. This term corresponds nearly to "guardian," (i. e., a person appointed to have the care of the person of a minor and the administration of his estate,) except that the guardian of a minor who. has passed a certain age is called ''curator," and has powers More...
  • TUTORSHIP
    The office and power of a tutor. ------Tutorship by nature. After the dissolution of marriage by the death of either husband or wife, the tutorship of minor children belongs of right to the surviving mother or father. This is what is called "tutorship by nature." Civ. Code La. art 250.-------Tutorship More...
  • TUTRIX
    A female tutor.
  • TWA NIGHT GEST
    In Saxon law. A guest on the second night. By the laws of Edward the Confessor it was provided that a man who lodged at an inn, or at the house of another, should be considered, on the flrst night of his being there, a stranger, (uncuth;) on the second More...
  • TWELFHINDI
    The highest rank of men in the Saxon government, who were valued at 1200s. If any injury were done to such persons, satisfaction was to be made according to their worth. Cowell.
  • TWELVE TABLES
    The earliest statute or code of Roman law, framed by a commission of ten men, B. C. 450, upon the return of a commission of three who had been sent abroad to study foreign laws and institutions. The Twelve Tables consisted partly of laws transcribed from the Institutions of other More...
  • TWELVE-DAY WRIT
    A writ Issued under the St. 18 A 19 Vict c. 67, for summary procedure on bills of exchange and promissory notes, abolished by rule of court in 1880. Wharton.
  • TWELVE-MONTH
    in the singular number, includes all the year; but twelve months are to be computed according to twimty-eight days for every month. 6 Coke, 62.
  • TWICE IN JEOPARDY
    See JEOPARDY; ONCE IN JEOPARDY.
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