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Tignum

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

A civil-law term for building material; timber.

Tigni immittendi

In the civil law, a servitude consisting in the right of inserting a beam or timber from the wall of one house into that of a neighboring house, in order that it may rest on the latter, and that the wall of the latter may assist in bearing the weight.

Wharton.