Tack
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
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Is a Scotch name for a lease; as in the following passage from Erskine: " Where neither the setter nor tacksman shall properly discover their intention to have the tack dissolved at the term fixed for its expiration, they are understood or presumed to have entered into a new tack, upon the same terms as the former."