Totted
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 good debt to the king noted as such by an officer, called the " foreign apposer," writing the word lot opposite to it, in the estreat-roU in the exchequer, to indicate that for so much (Lat. tot) the sheriff must account to the king. The accounts given of this usage indicate that, from time to time, " tot " was written against the sum charged in the exchequer books against a solvent or paying debtor, to denote that the demand was esteemed worth its face, — good for so much as the sum set down. Hence, " totted debts " came to mean good, solvent demands. Totted is a term used in Stat. 42 Edw.