Synod

See Church.

See Church.

T. T. 1.

As an abbreviation, usually stands for tempore, term, terminer, Tei-ritory, title, trial.

Trinity. 2.

As a brand or mark of infamy, commonly meant ' ' thief. " Anciently, a person convicted of a felony, not murder, and admitted to clergy, was branded with a T on the brawn of the thumb. ^ 'Gk. syl'labos, taken together — asawhole; athing made concise; a brief.

2 Gk. syn'dicos, an assistant to a judge or court. s Arnold v. Danziger, 30 F. E. 899 (1887), oases; 33 id. 1; La. Civ. Code, art. 429.

4 See Appeal of Whelen, 108 Pa. 162, 195 (1884). ^ Gk. syn-grdpliein, to write together. Compare Holograph. In Colonial times, was branded or imprinted with indelible ink upon the cheek of a person convicted of theft. A law enacted in Pennsylvania in 1698 provided, as part of the punishment for stealing goods worth five shillings, that the culprit be ordered, upon penalty of banishment, to wear, when away from his own premises, for six months, upon the outside of the left sleeve between the shoulder and the elbow, a badge of his " thieving " in the shape of a Roman " T." four inches long by one broad, of a color unlike that of the garment,— red, blue, or yellow, as the court directed. ^