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TEMENTALE, OR TENEMENTALE
A tax of two shillings upon every plowed land, a decennary.

A tax of two shillings upon every plowed land, a decennary. Less...
TEMERE
Lat In the civil law. Rashly; inconsiderately. A plaintiff was said temere litigare who demanded a thing out of malice, or sued without just cause, and who could show no ground or cause of action. Brissonius.

Lat In the civil law. Rashly; inconsiderately. A plaintiff was said temere litigare who demanded a thing out of malice, or sued without just cause, and who could show no ground or cause of action. Brissonius. Less...
TEMPEST
A violent or furious storm; a current of wind rushing with extreme violence, and usually accompanied with rain or snow. See Stover v. Insurance Co., 3 Phila. (Pa.) 39; Thistle v. Union Forwarding Co, 29 U. C. C. P. 84.

A violent or furious storm; a current of wind rushing with extreme violence, and usually accompanied with rain or snow. See Stover v. Insurance Co., 3 Phila. (Pa.) 39; Thistle v. Union Forwarding Co, 29 U. C. C. P. 84. Less...
TELLER
One who numbers or counts. An officer of a bank who receives or pays out money. Also one appointed to count the votes cast in a deliberative or legislative assembly or other meeting. The name was also given to certain officers formerly attached to the English exchequer. The teller is More...

One who numbers or counts. An officer of a bank who receives or pays out money. Also one appointed to count the votes cast in a deliberative or legislative assembly or other meeting. The name was also given to certain officers formerly attached to the English exchequer. The teller is a considerable officer in the exchequer, of which officers there are four, whose office is to receive all money due to the king, and to give the clerk of the pells a bill to charge him therewith. They also pay to all persons any money payable by the king, and make weekly and yearly books of their receipts and payments, which they deliver to the lord treasurer. Cowell; Jacob. -Tellers in parliament. In the language of parliament the "tellers" are the members of the house selected to count the members when a division takes place. In-the house of lords a division is effected by the "non-contents" remaining within the bar, and the "contents" going below it, a teller being appointed for each party. In the commons the "ayes" go into the lobby at one end of the house, and the "noes" into the lobby at the other end, the house itself being perfectly empty, and two tellers being appointed for each party. May, Pari. Pr..; Brown. Less...
TEMPLARS
A religious order of knighthood, Instituted about the year 1119, and so called because the members dwelt in a part of the temple of Jerusalem, and not far from the sepulcher of our Lord. They entertained Christian strangers and pilgrims charitably, and their profession was at first to defend travelers More...

A religious order of knighthood, Instituted about the year 1119, and so called because the members dwelt in a part of the temple of Jerusalem, and not far from the sepulcher of our Lord. They entertained Christian strangers and pilgrims charitably, and their profession was at first to defend travelers from highwaymen and robbers. The order was suppressed A. D. 1307, and their substance given partly to the knights of St John of Jerusalem, and partly to other religious orders. Brown. Less...
TEMPLE
Two English inns of court thus called because anciently the dwelling place of the Knights Templar. On the suppression of the order, they were purchased by some professors of the common law, and converted into hospitia or inns of court They are called the "Inner" and "Middle Temple," in relation More...

Two English inns of court thus called because anciently the dwelling place of the Knights Templar. On the suppression of the order, they were purchased by some professors of the common law, and converted into hospitia or inns of court They are called the "Inner" and "Middle Temple," in relation to Essex House, which was also a part of the house of the Templars, and called the "Outer Temple," because situated without Temple Bar. Enc. Lond. Less...
TEMPORAL LORDS
The peers of England; the bishops are not in strictness held to be peers, but merely lords of parliament 2 Steph. Comm. 830, 845.

The peers of England; the bishops are not in strictness held to be peers, but merely lords of parliament 2 Steph. Comm. 830, 845. Less...
TEMPORALIS
Lat. In the civil law. Temporary; limited to a certain time, -Temporalis aetio. An action which could only be brought within a certain period--Temporalis exceptio. A temporary exception which barred an action for a time only.

Lat. In the civil law. Temporary; limited to a certain time, -Temporalis aetio. An action which could only be brought within a certain period--Temporalis exceptio. A temporary exception which barred an action for a time only. Less...
TEMPORALITIES
In English law. The lay fees of bishops, with which their churches are endowed or permitted to be endowed by the liberality of the sovereign, and in virtue of which they become barons and lords of parliament. Spelman. In a wider sense, the money revenues of a church, derived from More...

In English law. The lay fees of bishops, with which their churches are endowed or permitted to be endowed by the liberality of the sovereign, and in virtue of which they become barons and lords of parliament. Spelman. In a wider sense, the money revenues of a church, derived from pew rents, subscriptions, donations, collections, cemetery charges, and other sources. See Barabasz v. Kabat, 86 Md. 23, 37 Atl. 720. Less...
TEMPORALITY
The laity; secular people.

The laity; secular people. Less...

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