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Span. A time of inability; a time when the person is not able to pay his debts, (when, for instance, he may not alienate property to the prejudice of his creditors.) The term is used In Louisiana. Brown v. Kenner, 8 Mart. O. S. (La.) 270; Thorn v. Morgan, 4 Mart. N. S. (La.) 292, […]

L. Fr. Such. Nul tiei record, no such record

The ebb and flow of the sea. See Baird v. Campbell, 67 App. Div. 104, 73 N. Y. Supp. 617

In oontraots. A slip of paper containing a certificate that the person to whom it is issued, or the holder, Is en-titled to some right or privilege thereln mentioned or described; such, for example, are rallroad tickets, theater tickets, pawn tickets

A colloquial expression for credit or trust; credit given for goods purchased

A woodward, or per-son that looks after a wood

In old English law. The custom of giving entertainments to a sheriff, etc., for three nights

A Saxon coin worth four-pence. Du Fresne

To ignore, (a bill of ln-dlctment

Vassals, but not of the lowest degree; those who held lands of the chief lord

A gold coin of the United States, of the value of three

Sending threatening letters is the name of the offense ef sending letters containing threats of the kinds recognized by the statute as crlmlnal. See People v. Griffin, 2 Barb. (N. Y.) 429

A middle line; a line rnn-nlng through the middle of a stream or road. See Filum; FIlum Aquas; Filum Via

In old English law. A measure of corn or grain, consisting of twenty-four sheaves or four shocks, six sheaves to every shock. Cowell

See Aa

The third part of the corn growing on the land, due to the lord for a herlot on the death of his tenant, witiv in the the manor of Turfat, in Hereford. Blount

Following next after the sec, ond j also, with reference to any legal in? strument or transaction or judicial proceeding, nny outsider or person not a party tq the affair nor immediately concerned in lt

DE. By the

US. In Saxon law. A thane or nobleman; knight or freeman. Cowell

Lat. In the civil and old Euro* pean law. An aunt

Tlie most general denomina-tion of the subjects of property, as contra-distinguished frpm persons. 2 Bl. Comm. Id

A tithing

A law-maker; a lawgiver

Treasurer. 3 State Tr. 691

The

At once; without lnter-ruption; without delay or lapse of time. Putnam v. Langley, 133 Mass. 205

In Saxon law. offenders who? joined in a body of seven to commit depreda* tions. wharton

ES, THEOWMEN, or THEWS

See Codex Theodosia nus

In Saxon law. A husband- * man or Inferior tenant; an under-thane. Cowell

Goverumeut of a state by the immediate direction of God, (or by the assumed direction of a supposititious divinity.) or the state thus governed

In surveying, und in descrip-tions of land by courses aud distances, this word, preceding each course giveu, imports that the following course ls coutiuuous with the oue before it Flagg v. Mason, 141 Mass. 66, 6 N. E. 702

A duty or acknowl-edgment paid by inferior tenants in respect of theme or team. Cowell

In Saxon law. The power of haring jurisdiction over naifs or villeins, with thelr suits or offspring, lands, goods, and chattels. Co. Litt. llGa

The toll-man or officer who receives toll. Cowell

An abolished writ for citizens or burgesses to assert their right to exemption from toll. Fltzh. Nat Brev. 226

The offense committed by a party who, having been robbed and knowing the felon, takes back bis goods again, or receives other amends, upon an agreement not to prosecute. See Forshner v. whltcomb, 44 N. H. 16

Au lnn of chancery. See Inns or Chancebt

The office and dignity of a thane; the seigniory of a thane

Such lands as were granted by charter of the Saxon klngs to thelr thanes with all immunities, except from the trinoda necessitas. Cowell

A certain

Germ.. A term used ln topography to designate a line representing the deepest part of a continuous depression in the surface, such as a watercourse; hence the middle of the deepest part of the chan-nel of a river or other stream. See Iowa v. Illinois, 147 U. S. 1, 13 Sup. Ct 239, 37 L. […]

A legal treatlse which lays down principles or collects decisions on any branch of the law

In old English law. The Rochester text. An ancient manu-script containing many of the Saxon laws, and the rights, customs, tenures, etc., of the church of Rochester, drawn up b.v Ernulph. bishop of that Bee from A. D. 1114 to 1124. Cowell

An old law French term, denoting evldence or testimony or a witness

Lat A witness; one who gives evidence in court, or who witnesses a docu-ment

Evidence of a witness; evidence given by a witness, under oath or affirmation; as distinguished from evidence derived from writings, and other sources

In Spanish law. An authentic copy of a deed or other instrument

Lat. witnesses

To be tested is to bear the teste, (q. o