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Lat. In old Englisb law and practice. A solemn formula of attestation hy the sovereign, used at the condu-sion of charters, and other public instru-ments, and also of original writs out of chan* cery. Spelman

Lat In the civil law. Testate; one who has made a will. Dig. 50, 17, 7

In practice. A writ containing a testatum clause; such as a testatum capias, a testatum fl. fa., and a testatum ca. sa. See Testatum

A woman who makes a will; a woman who dies leaving a will; a female testator

In praotioo. when a writ of execution has been directed to the sheriff of a county, and he returns that the defendant is not found in ills bailiwick, or tiiat he has no goods there, as the case may be, then a second writ, reciting this former

witness; evidence

‘One who has made a will; one who dies leavlng a will

Lat In tbo civil law. A testament; a will, or last will

Lat In the dvil law. To testify; to attest; to declare, publish, or make known a thing before witnesses. To make a will. Calvin

Lat In the

Pertaining to a will or testament; as teatamentary causes. De-rlved from, founded on, or appointed by a testament or will; as a testamentary guardian, letters teatamentary, etc

A person is said to be test-able when he has capacity to make a will; a man of twenty-one years of age and of Bane mind is testable

To bring one to a trial and exam-ination, or to ascertain the truth or the quality or fitness of a thing

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Alarm; fright; dread; tbe state of mind induced by the apprehension of hurt from some hostile or threatening event or manifestation; fear caused b.v the appear-ance of danger. In an indictment for riot, lt must be charged that the acts done were

Lat. In old English law. Third publication or proclama-tion of intended marriage

A pnrt of a country sep-arated from the rest, and subject to a particular jurisdlction

The courts established ln the territories of the United States

A writ that lay for a man convicted hy attaint, to bring the record and process before the king, and take a flne for his imprisonment, and then to deliver to him his lands and teue-ments again, and release him of the strip and waste. Reg. orig. 232. Also lt was a writ for the […]

A Judlcinl writ for the restoring of lands or goods to a debtor who ls distrained above the amount of the debt Reg. Jud

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He who ls Uterally ln the occupation or possession of the land, as distinguished from the owner out of pos-sessiou. But, in a more technical sense, the person who ls seised of the land, though not in actual occupancy of it, and locally, in Pennsylvania, one who purchases and takes land subject to the existing […]

In old English law. A landholder

In old English law. A klnd of tax or charge on land; a boon or duty of plowing, reaping, etc. Cowell

An exemption from all uncertain services. Cowell

Lat. Earth; soil; arable land. Kennett, Gloss

In Engllsh ecclesiastical practice. A time for the deter-mlnatlon of appeals, shorter than the terminus juris, appointed by the judge. Hallifax, Civll Law, b. 3, C. 11, no. 36

In Engllsh ecdesl-astical practlce. The tlme of one or two years, allowed by law for the determination of appeals. IIalllfax, Clvll Law, b. 3, c. 11. no. 38

Boundary; a limit, elther of space or time

A wrlt which lay for the reverBloner, when the possession was with-held by the lessee, or a stranger, after the determlnatlon of a lease for years. Brown

In Spanlsh law. A com-mon; common land. Common because of vicinage, whlte, New Recop. b. 2, tlt 1, C-6, { 1, note

A day given to a defend-ant Spelman

Lat Ends; bounds; llmlt-lng or termlnatlng polnts

L. Fr. To determine. See Oteb ano TebmIneb

Thls name is sometimes given to property of such a nature that Its duration is not perpetual or indefinite, but ls llmited or llable to terminate upon tlie happening of an event or the expiration of a fixed term; e. g., a leasehold, a life-annuity, etc

Socleties, ln England, where the members commence thelr monthly contrlbu-tions on a particular day. aud continue to pay them until the realization of shares to a glven amount for each member, by the advance of the capltal of the society to such members as requlred it, and the payment of

Terms of the law. The name of a lexicon of the law French words and other technicalities of legal language ln old tlmes

A word or phrase; an expression ; particularly one which possesses a flx-ed and known meaning in some science, art, or profession

A term applied ln the west Indies to a person one of whose parents

The mode or system of hold-lng lands or tenements ln subordination to some superlor, which, in the feudal ages, was the leading characteristic of real property

A term used in stating the tenure in an actiou for waste done after the termination of the tenancy. See Tirkt

In old Engllsh law. Tenure

In Englisb law. A tempo-rary aid issuing out of personal property, and. granted to the king by parliament; for-nierly the real tenth part of nil the mov-ables belonging to the subject. 1 Bl. Comm. 308

The essay or as-say of bread. Blonnt

By the ten-or of these presents, i. e., the matter con-tained thereln, or rather the lntent and meaning thereof. Cowell

A sort of ancient tax or military contribution, wharton

A term used ln pleading to de-note tiiat an exact copy is set out 1 Chit. Crim. Law, 235

or TIENHEOFED. In

Lat. In the civil law. To hold; to hold fast; to have in possession; to retain

A writ that formerly lay for him to whom a disseisor had alienated the land whereof he disseised another, that he should not be molested in assize for dam-ages, if the disseisor had wherewith to sat-isfy them. Reg. orig. 214