Black's Law Dictionary

A certain part of the king's land or property, of which the ruler or governor was called "thane." Cowell.

An Anglo-Saxon nobleman; an old title of honor, perhaps equivalent to "baron." There were two orders of thanes, —the king's thanes and the ordinary thanes. Soon after the Conquest

Such lands as were granted by charter of the Saxon kings to their thanes with all immunities, except from the trinoda necessitas. Cowell.

The office and dignity of a thane; the seigniory of a thane. That which I may defeat by my entry I make good by my confirmation. Co.. Litt. 300.

An inn of chancery. See Inns or Chancery.

An article which particularizes the subject spoken of. "Grammatical niceties shonid not be resorted to without necessity; but it would be extending liberality to an unwarrantable l

Any edifice used for the purpose of dramatic or operatic or other representations, plays or performances, for admission to which entrance-money is received, not including halls ren

In English law. (So called because its original jurisdiction was to determine controversies between subject and subject.) One of the three superior courts of common law at Westmins

An unlawful felonious inking away of another man's movable and personal goods against the wlll of the owner. Jacob. Theft is the fraudulent taking of corporeal ersonal property bel

The offense committed by a party who, having bcen robbed and knowing the felon, takes back his goods again, pr receives other amends, upon an agreement not to prosecute. See Forshn

3 Inst 134. Theft-bote is the paying money to have goods stolen returned, without having any respect for the court of the king.

Or "The Body of Laws of the province of Pennsylvania and Territories thereunto belonging, Past at an Assembly held at Chester, alias Upland, the 7th day of the tenth month, called

In Saxon law. A noble; generally a prince of the blood.

A writ that formerly lay for him that had any part of the king's demesne in fee-farm, to recover reasonable toll of the king's tenants there, if his demesne had been accustomed to

An abolished writ for citizens or burgesses to assert their right to exemption from toll. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 226.

The toll-man or officer who receives toll. Cowell.

The statute 39 & 40 Geo. III. c. 98, which restricted accumulations to a term of twenty-one years from the testator's dcath. It was passed in consequence of litigation over the wil

An instrument used by mariners to point out the course of a ship at sca. It consists of a magnetized steel bar called the "needle," attached to the under side of a card, upon which

In Saxon law. The power of having jurisdiction over naifs or villeins, with their suits or offspring, lands, goods, and chattels. Co. Litt. 116a.

A duty or acknowledgment paid by inferior tenants in respect of theme or team. Cowell.

This word, as an adverb, means "at that time," referring to a time specified, either past or future. It has no power in itself to fix a time. It simply refers to a time already fix

In surveying, and in descriptions of land by courses and distances, this word, preceding each course given, imports that the following course is continuous with the one before it.

Government of a state by the immediate direction of God, (or by the assumed direction of a supposititious divinity,) or the state thus governed.

In Saxon law. A husbandman or inferior tenant; an under-thane. Cowell.

See Codex Theodosianus.

In Saxon law. Offenders who joined in a body of seven to commit depredations. Wharton.

In feudal law. Slaves, captives, or bondmen. Spel. Feuds, c. 5.

This officer, so constituted by letters patent, has preaudience over the bar after the attorney and solicitor general and queen's advocate. 3 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 274, note.

The name given, par excellence, to Lord Coke's Reports, from 14 Eliz. to 13 Jan. L, which are cited as "Rep." or "Coke." They are divided into thirteen parts, and the modern editio

At once; without interruption; without delay or lapse of time, Putnam v. Langley, 133 Mass. 205.

Treasurer. 8 State Tr. 691.

In old English law. Treasure hidden or buried. Spelman.

Fitzh. Coron. 281. A treasure belongs to the king, and not to the lord of a liberty, unless it be through special words.

3 Inst. 132. Treasure-trove is an ancient hiding of money, etc., of which no recollection exists, so that it now has no owner.

In old English law. Treasure found; treasure-trove. Bract fols. 119b, 122.

3 Inst. 132. Treasure does not belong to the king, uniess no one knows who hid it

Godb. 293. The king's treasure is the bond of peace and the sinews of wav.

The treasury; a treasure. —Thesaurus absconditus. In old English law. Treasure hidden or buried. Spelman. —Thesaurus inventus. In old English law. Treasure found; treasure-trove. B

The acts passed in 1819, for the pacification of England, are so called. They, in effect, prohibited the training of persons to arms; authorised general searches and seizure of arm

A law-maker; a lawgiver.

A tithing.

The ruie of evidence which obtains in the civil law, that the testimony of one witness is equivalent to the testimony of none. Wharton.

Lat In~ the civil and old European law. An aunt

One who has been guilty of larceny or theft The term covers both compound and simple larceny. America Ins. Ch v. Bryan, 1 Hili (N. Y.) 25.

The most general denomination of the subjects of property, as contradistinguished from persons. 2 Bl. Comm. 16. The word "estate" in general is applicable to anything of which rich

A thing in action is a right to recover money or other personal property by a judicial proceeding. Civ. Code Cal. { 953. See Chose in Action.

Goods, money, and all other movables, which may attend the owner's person where-ever he thinks proper to go. 2 Bl. Comm. 16. Things personal consist of goods, money, and all other

Such things as are permanent, fixed, and immovable, which cannot be carried out of their place ; as lands and tenements. 2 Bl. Comm. 16. This definition has been objected to as not

In Saxon law. A thane or nobleman; knight or freeman. Cowell.

In a special finding by a Jury, this word is equivalent to "believe," land expresses the conclusion of the jury with sufficient positiveness. Martin v. Central Iowa By. Ch, 59 Iowa

Following next after the second; also, with reference to any legal instrument or transaction or judicial proceeding, any outsider or person not a party to the affair nor immediatel

An under-constable. Cowell.

The third part of the corn growing on the land, due to the lord for a heriot on the death of his tenant, within the the manor of Turfat, in Hereford. Blount.

By the laws of St. Edward the Confessor, lf any man lay a third night in an Inn, he was called a "third-night-awn-hinde," and his host was answerable for him If he committed any of

In Louisiana, when an execution is Levied on property which does' not belong to the defendant, but to an outsider, the remedy, of the owner is by an intervention calied a "third op

A term nsed to include all persons who are not parties to the contract, agreement, or instrument of writing by which their interest in the thing conveyed is sought to be affected.

A portion (one-third) of the amount of all fines and other profits of the county court, which was reserved for the earl, in the early days when the jurisdiction of those courts was

In Louisiana, a person who buys mortgaged property, but without assuming the payment of the mortgage. Thompson v. Levy, 50 La. Ann. 751, 23 South. 913.

The designation, in colloquial language, of that portion of a decedent's personal estate (one-third) which goes to the widow where there is also a child or children. See Yeomans v.

In Scotch law. A servitude by which lands are astricted or "thirled" to a particular mill, to which the possessors must carry the grain of the growth of the astricted lands to be g

See Articles of Religion.

When "this" and "that" refer to different things before expressed, "this" refers to the thing last mentioned, and "that" to the thing first mentioned. Russell v. Kennedy, 66 Pa. 25

Fixing "this day six months," Or "three months," for the next stage of a bill, is one of the modes in which the house of lords and the house of commons reject bills of which they d

It was a custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester, that lf, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he shouid pay a halfpenn

The term means, according to its derivation, a street or passage through which one can fare, (travel;) that is, a street or highway affording an unobstructed exit at each end into

In old English law. A measure of com or grain, consisting of twenty-four sheaves or four shocks, six sheaves to every shock. Cowell.

A middle line; a line running through the middle of a stream or road. See Filum; Filum A quæ; Filum Viæ.

In criminal law. A menace; a declaration of one's purpose or intention to work injury to the person, property or rights of another. A threat has been defined to be any menace of su

Sending threatening letters is the name of the offense of sending letters containing threats of the kinds recognized by the statute as criminal. See Pcople v. Griffin, 2 Barb. (N.

A gold coin of the United States, of the value of three dollars; authorized by the seventh section of the act of February 21, 1853.

Vassals, but not of the lowest degree; those who held lands of the chief lord.

In Saxon and old English law. The third part of a county; a division of a county consisting of three or more hundreds. Cowell. Corrupted to the modern "riding," which is still used

In medical Jurisprudence. The front or anterior part of the neck. Where one was indicted for murder by "cutting the throat" of the decoased, it was held that the word "throat" was

This word is sometimes equivalent to "over;" as in a statute in reference to laying out a road "through" certain grounds. Hyde Park v. Oakwoods Cemetery Ass'n, 119 III. 147, 7 N. E

To ignore, (a bill of indictment.)

Within the mcaning of a criminal statute, "thrusting" is not necessarily an attack with a pointed weapon; it means pushing or driving with force, whether the point of the weapon be

A Saxon coin worth four-pence. Du Fresne.

A woodward or person that looks after a wood.

One of the "barbarian codes," as they are termed; supposed by Montesquieu to have been given by Theod-oric, king of Austrasia, to the Thuringians, who were his subjects. Esprit des

In old English law. The custom of giving entertainments to a sheriff, etc., for three nights.

A colloquial expression for credit or trust; credit given for goods purchased.

In contracts. A Slip of paper containing a certificate that the person to whom it is issued or the holder, is entitled to some right or privilege therein mentioned or described; su

In English law. A license or permit given to a convict, as a reward for good conduct, particularly in the penal settlements, which allows him to go at large, and labor for himself,

In order that a river may be "tidal" at a given snot, it may not be necessary that the water should be salt, but the spot must be one where the tide, in the ordinary and regular co

The ebb and flow of the sea. See Baird v. Campbell, 67 App. Div. 104, 73 N. Y. Supp. 617. —Tide lands. See Land. —Tide-water. Water which falls and rises with the ebb and flow of t

See Land.

in English law, are certuin officers of the custom-house, appointed to watch or attend upon ships till the customs are paid; and they are so called because they go aboard the ships

Water which falls and rises with the ebb and flow of the tide. The term is not usually applied to the open sea, but to coves, bays, rivers, etc.

See Tide.

n. When, at an election, neither candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, but each has the same number, there is said to be a "tie." So when the number of votes cast in fav

L. Fr. Such. Nul tiel record, no such record.

Span. A time of inability; a time when the person is not able to pay his debts, (when, for instance, he may not alienate property to the prejudice of his creditors.) The term is us

A liquid measure, containing the third part of a pipe or forty-two gallons. L. Fr. Third. Tierce mein, third hand. Britt, c. 120.

In old records. A close or inclosure; a croft Cowell.

As colioquially applied to a note, bond, mortgage, lease, etc., this term signifies that the clauses providing the creditor's remedy in case of default (as, by foreclosure, executi

Lat In the civll law. The name of a servitude which is 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 res

Lat. A civll-law term for building material; timber.

In old Saxon law. An accusation.

A place tilled or cultivated; land under cultivation, as opposed to lands lying fallow or in pasture,

Wood felled for building or other such like use. In a legal sense it generally means (in England) oak, ash, and elm, but In some parts of England, and generally in America, it is u