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  • THINK
    In a special finding by a jury this word is equivalent to "believe," and expresses the conclusion of the jury with sufficient positlveness. Martin v. Central Iowa Ry. Co., 59 Iowa, 414, 13 N. W. 424.
  • THIRD-NIGHT-AWN-HINDE
    By the laws of St. Edward the Confessor, if any man lay a third night in an inn, he was called a "third-night-awn-hinde". and his host was answerable for him if he committed any offense. The first night, forman-night, or uncouth, (unknown,) he was reckoned a stranger; the second night, More...
  • THIRD
    Following next after the second; also, with reference to any legal instrument or transaction or judicial proceeding, any outsider or person not a party, to the affair nor immediately concerned in it. ------ Third opposition. In Louisiana, when an, execution is levied on property which does not belong to the More...
  • THIRDBOROUGH, OR THIRDBOROW
    An under-constable. Cowell.
  • THIRDINGS
    The third part of the corn growing on the land, due to the lord for a heriot on the death of his tenant, witH-in the the manor of Turfat, in Hereford. Blount.
  • THIRDS
    The designation, in colloquial language, of that portion of a decedents personal estate (one-third) which goes to the widow where there is also a child or chilr dren. See Yeomans v. Stevens, 2 Allen (Mass.) 350; O'Hara v. Dever, 46 Barb. (N, Y.) 614.
  • THIRLAGE
    In Scotch law. A servitude by which lands are astrieted or "thirled" to a particular mill, to which the possessors must carry the grain of the growth of the astrieted lands to be ground, for the payment of such duties as are either expressed or Implied in the constitution of More...
  • THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES
    See ARTICLES OF RELIGION
  • THIS
    When "this" and "that" refer to different things before expressed, "this" refers to the thing last mentioned, and "that" to the thing first mentioned. Russell T. Kennedy, 66 Pa. 261.
  • THIS DAY SIX MONTHS
    Fixing "this day six months," or "three months," for the next stage of a bill, is one of the modes in which the house of lords and the house of commons reject bills of which they disapprove. A bill rejected in this manner cannot be reintroduced in the same session. More...
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