TAXARE
Lat. To rate or value. Calvin. To tax; to lay a tax or tribute. Spelman.
Terms beginning with "T" (352 total)
TAXATIO
Lat. In Roman law. Taxation or assessment of damages; the assessment, by the judge, of the amount of ‘damages to be awarded to a plaintiff, and particularly in the way of reducing the amount claimed or sworn to by the ...
TAXATION
TAXABLE. Subject to taxation; Mable to be assessed, along with others, for a share in a tax. Persons subject to taxation are sometimes called “taxables;” .so property which may be assessed for taxation is said to be ...
TAXING MASTER
TAXING OFFICER. Each house of par- Niament has a taxing officer, whose duty it is to tax the costs incurred by the promoters or opponents of private bills. May, Parl.
Tay. J.L
(or Tay. N.C.). J. i. Taylor's North Carolina Reports.
Taylor v. Bleakley, 55 Kan
1, 39 Pac. 1045,. 28 L. R, A. 683, 49 Am. St. Rep. 233. :
Taylor v. Boyd, 63 Tex
5883; Morgan's Co. v. State Board of Health, 118 U. S. 455, 6
Taylor, 166 Pa
507, 31 Atl. 250; Clark v.
TBADL
of certain kinds of toxins, venoms, and diseasegerms, obtained from the blood of an animal which has previously been treated with repeated minute injections of the particular poison or germ to be neutralized —Toxieoman...
Te: TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS
J. Johnson’s New York Reports.
Tel. Co
(C. C.) 29 Fed. 33; Upper Mississippi
Tel. Co., 79 Miss
341, 30 South. 725, 89 Am.
Tel. Co., 8 Ky
664, 2 S. W. 483; Bates’ Ann. St. Ohio, 1904, § 6034c.
TELEGRAPH
TEAM WORK. Within the meaning of an exemption law, this term means work done by a team as a substantial part of a man’s business; as in farming, staging, express carrying, drawing of freight, peddling, or the transport...
TELEGRAPHIZ
TELEGRAPHIZ. A word occasionally ueed in old English law to describe ancient documents or written evidence of things past. Blount.
Telephone Co
v. Root (Pa.) 4 Atl. 829;
TELZ
Lat. In Roman law. The regulation of justifiable defense. A term used to express that degree of force in defense of the person or property which a person might safely use, although it should occasion the death of the agg...
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,
Templeman, 90 Tex
277, 38 S. W. oF ; U.S. v. Patterson (C. C.) 55 Fed. 605; State v. Continental Tobacco Co., 177 Mo. 1, 75 S. W. 737.
TEMPORALIS
Lat. In the civil law. Temporary; limited to a certain time —Temporalis actio. An action which could only be brought within a certain period—Tem-
TEMPORARY
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=....
TEMPORE
the merits can be had. Jesse French Piano
Ten
(12th Ed.) 717. et seqg.—Double voucher. This was when a common recovery was had, and an estate of freehold was first conveyed to any indifferent person against whom the precipe was brought, and then he vouched the ten...
TENANT
chase or grant to two or more persons. Joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance. commencin at one and the same time, and held by one an the same undivided possession. The gran...
TENANT-RIGHT
porting that the grantees are to take in distinct shares. 1 Steph. Comm. 323. See Coster v. Lorillard, 14 Wend. (N. Y.) 336; Taylor v. Millard, 118 N. Y. 244, 23 N. E. 376, 6 L. R. 7; Silloway v. Brown, 12 Allen (Mass.) ...
TENEMENTO QUOD FUIT DE ANTIQ
UO DOMINICO. An abolished writ for disannulling a fine levied of lands in ancient demesne to the prejudice of the lord. Reg.
TENENDUM
faction of the plaintiff's claim. Mozley & Whit- é A form of words in a pacing, oy which a party offers to refer the question raised upon it to the appropriate mode of decision. The common tender of an issue of fact by ...
TENENTIBUS IN ASSISA NON ON
ERANDIS. A writ that formerly lay for him to whom a disseisor had alfenated the land whereof he disseised another, that he should not be molested in assize for damages, if the disselsor had wherewith to satisfy them. Reg...
TENERE
Lat. In the civil law. To hold; to hold fast; to have in possession; to retain,
TENET; TENUIT
Lat. He holds; he held. In the Latin forms of the writ of waste against a tenant, these words introduced the allegation of tenure. If the tenancy still existed, and recovery of the land was sought, the former word was us...
TENHEDED, or TIENHEOFED. In
old English law. <A dean. Cowell. TENMENTALE, The number of ten
Tenn
715, 59 S. W. 1083, 78 Am. St. Rep. 941. 678, 83 S. W. 568. 497; Winston v. Johnson, 42 Minn. 398, 45 N. W. 958; Bryan v. Bradley, 16 391, 45 8S. W. 676.—Heir institute. In Scotch law. One to whom the right of succe...
TENOON
L. Fr, A dispute; a quarrel. Kelham. as TEND. In old English law. To tender
TENORE INDICTAMENTI MITTEN
DO. A writ whereby the record of an indictment, and the process thereupon, was called out of another court into the queen’s bench. Reg. Orig. 69.
TENT
Fr. For account of whom it may concern. :
TENTATES PANIS
say of bread. Blount.
TENURA EST PACTIO
“Tenor,” in pleading a written instrument, imports that the very words are set out. “Purport” does not import this, but is equivalent only to “substance.” Com. v. Wright, 1 Cush. (Mass.) 65; Dana v. State, 2 ...
TENURE
a conipact contrary to the common nature and reason of the fee, put into a contract.
TERM
was white and the other a mulatto. See Danjel v. Guy, 19 Ark. 181. if it be for his interest to accept or reject the succession which has fallen to him. Civ. Code
Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Bract
fol. 2. If it be universal, it is common law; if particular to this or that place, it is then properly custom. 8 Salk. 112.
Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Co. Litt
147. Rent may also be extinguished by conjunction of estates, by hte iar by grant, by release,
TERMINABLE PROPERTY. This
name is sometimes given to property of such a nature that its duration is not perpetual or indefinite, but is limited or Iiable to terminate upon the happening of an event or the expiration of a fixed term; c. g., a leas...
TERMINATING BUILDING SOOCI
ETIES. Societies, in England, where the members commence their monthly contributions on a particular day, and continue to pay them until the realization of shares to a given amount for each member, by the advance of the ...
TERMINI
Lat. Ends; bounds; Iimitting or terminating points.
TERMINUM QUI PRETERIIT, WRIT
OF ENTRY AD. A writ which lay for the reversioner, when the possession was withheld by the lessee, or a stranger, after the determination of a lease for years. Brown.
TERRA
interest as well as principal by them, so as to insure such realization within a given period of years. They have been almost superseded by permanent building societies. Wharton. Lat. Kennett, Gloss. —Terra affirmata....
TERRIS ET CATALLIS TENTIS UL
TRA DEBITUM LEVATUM. A judicial writ for the restoring of lands or goods to a debtor who is distrained above the amount of the debt. Reg. Jud.
TERRITORIAL, TERRITORIALITY
These terms are used to signify connection with, or limitation with reference to, a particular country or territory. Thus, “territorial law” is the correct expression for the law of a particular country or state, ait...
Territory v. McAndrews, 3 Mont
158. A high degree of impression of the truth of a fact, falling short of absolute certainty, but sufficient to justify a verdict of guilty, even in a capital case. See Burrill, rc. . 198-200. The phrase “moral certain...
TERROR
and chattels, formerly seized, after he had cleared himself of the felony of which he was accused, and delivered to his ordinary to be purged. Reg. Orig.