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  • TEIND COURT
    In Scotch law. A court which has jurisdiction of matters relating to teinds, or tithes.
  • TEIND MASTERS
    Those entitled to tithes.
  • TEINDS
    In Scotch law. A term corresponding to tithes (q. v.) in English ecclesiastical law.
  • TEIINLAND
    Sax. In old English law. Land of a thane or Saxon noble; land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. Cowell; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 5.
  • TELEGRAM
    A telegraphic dispatch; a message sent by telegraph.
  • TELEGRAPH
    In the English telegraph act of 1863, the word is defined as "a wire or wires used for the purpose of telegraphic communication, with any casing, coating, tube, or pipe inclosing the same, and any apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of telegraphic communication." St 26 A 27 Vict c More...
  • TELEGRAPHIAE
    A word occasionally need in old English law to describe ancient documents or written evidence of things past. Blount
  • TELEPHONE
    In a general sense, the name "telephone" applies to any instrument or apparatus which transmits sound beyond the limits of ordinary audibility. But, since the recent discoveries in telephony, the name is technically and primarily restricted to an instrument or device which transmits sound by means of electricity and wires More...
  • TELLIGRAPHUM
    An Anglo-Saxon charter of land. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 1" p. 10.
  • TELLWORC
    That labor which a tenant was bound to do for his lord for a certain number of days.
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