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TITHER
One who gathers tithes.

One who gathers tithes. Less...
TITHING
One of the civil divisions of England, being a portion of that greater division called a "hundred." It was so called because ten freeholders with their families composed one. It is said that they were all knit together in one society, and bound to the king for the peaceable behavior More...

One of the civil divisions of England, being a portion of that greater division called a "hundred." It was so called because ten freeholders with their families composed one. It is said that they were all knit together in one society, and bound to the king for the peaceable behavior of each other. In each of these societies there was. one chief or principal person, who, from his office, was called "teothing-map," now "tlth-ing-man." Brown. Less...
TITHING-PENNY
In Saxon and old English law. Money paid to the sheriff by the several tithings of his county. Cowell

In Saxon and old English law. Money paid to the sheriff by the several tithings of his county. Cowell Less...
TITHES
In English law. The tenth part of the Increase, yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock npon lands, and the personal industry of the Inhabitants. 2 Bl. Comm. 24. A species of Incorporeal hereditament, being an ecclesiastical Inheritance collateral to the estate of the land, and More...

In English law. The tenth part of the Increase, yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock npon lands, and the personal industry of the Inhabitants. 2 Bl. Comm. 24. A species of Incorporeal hereditament, being an ecclesiastical Inheritance collateral to the estate of the land, and due only to an ecclesiastical person by ecclesiastical law. 1 Crabb, Real Prop. 133. -Great tithes. In English ecclesiastical law. Tithes of corn, pease and beans, hay and wood. 2 Chit. Bl. Comm. 24, note; 3 Steph.-Comm. 127. -Mixed tithes. Those which arise not immediately from the ground, but from those things which are nounshed by the ground, e. g.t colts, chickens, calves, milk, eggs, etc. 3 Burn, Ecc. Law, 380; 2 Bl. Comm. 24.-Minute tithes* Small tithes, such as usually belong to a vicar, as of wool, lambs, pigs, butter,, cheese, herbs, seeds, eggs, honey, wax, etc.- Personal tithes are tithes paid of such profits as come by the labor of a man's person; as by buying and selling, gains of merchandise, and handicrafts, etc Tomlins.-Predial tithes. Such as arise immediately from the. ground: as, grain of all sorts, hay, wood, fruits, and. herbs.-Tithe-free. Exempted from- the payment of tithes.-Tithe rent-charge. A rent-charge established in lieu of tithes, under the tithes commutation act, 1836, (St 6 & 7 Wm. IV. c. 71.) As between landlord and tenant, the tenant .paying the tithe rent-charge is entitled, in the absence of express agreement, to deduct it from his rent, under section 70 of the above act, And a tithe rent-charge unpaid is recoverable' by distress as rent in arrear. Mozley & Whitley. Less...
TITHING-MAN
In Saxon law. This was the name of the head or chief of a decennary. In modern English law, he is the same as an under-constable or peace-officer. In modern law. A constable. "After the introduction of justices of the peace, the offices of constable and tithing-man became so similar More...

In Saxon law. This was the name of the head or chief of a decennary. In modern English law, he is the same as an under-constable or peace-officer. In modern law. A constable. "After the introduction of justices of the peace, the offices of constable and tithing-man became so similar that we now regard them as precisely the same." Willc, Const. Introd. In New England. A parish officer annually elected to preserve good order in the Church during divine service, and to make complaint of any disorderly conduct Webster. Less...
TITIUS
In Roman law. A proper name, frequently used in designating an indefinite or fictitious person, or a person referred to by way of Illustration. "Titius" and "Seius," in this use, correspond to "John Doe" and "Richard Roe," or to "A. B." and "C. D."

In Roman law. A proper name, frequently used in designating an indefinite or fictitious person, or a person referred to by way of Illustration. "Titius" and "Seius," in this use, correspond to "John Doe" and "Richard Roe," or to "A. B." and "C. D." Less...
TITULADA
In Spanish law. Title. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 5, c 3, | 2.

In Spanish law. Title. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 5, c 3, | 2. Less...
TITULARS OF ERECTION
Persons who in Scotland, after the Reformation, obtained grants from the crown of the monasteries and priories then erected into temporal lordships. Thus the titles formerly held by the religions houses, as well as the property of die lands, were conferred on these grantees, who were also called 'lords of More...

Persons who in Scotland, after the Reformation, obtained grants from the crown of the monasteries and priories then erected into temporal lordships. Thus the titles formerly held by the religions houses, as well as the property of die lands, were conferred on these grantees, who were also called 'lords of erection" and "titulars of the teinds." Bell. Less...
TITULUS
Lat In tbe civil law. Title ; the source or ground of possession; the means whereby possession of a thing is acquired, whether such possession be lawful or not. In old ecclesiastical law. A temple or church; the material edifice. So called because the priest in charge of it derived More...

Lat In tbe civil law. Title ; the source or ground of possession; the means whereby possession of a thing is acquired, whether such possession be lawful or not. In old ecclesiastical law. A temple or church; the material edifice. So called because the priest in charge of it derived therefrom his name and title. Spelman. Titnlns est Jnsta eansa possidendi id qnod nostrum est} dieitnr a tuendo. 8 Coke, 153. A title is the just right of possessing that which is our own; it is so called from "tuendo" defending. Less...
TO
This is a word of exclusion, when used in describing premises; it excludes the terminus mentioned. Montgomery v. Reed, 69 Me. 514.

This is a word of exclusion, when used in describing premises; it excludes the terminus mentioned. Montgomery v. Reed, 69 Me. 514. Less...

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