Systematized Delusion
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
One based on a false premise, pursued by a logical process of reasoning to an insane conclusion; there being one central delusion around which other aberrations of the mind converge; Tay- T. Every person convicted of felony short of murder, and admitted to benefit of clergy, was at one time marked with this letter upon the brawn of the thumb.
Abolished by 7 & 8 Geo. IV.
Whart. Diet. TAB EL LA (Lat). In Civil Law. A small table on which votes were often written.
Cicero, in Hull. 2. 2.
Three tables were given to the judges, one with the letter A for Absolutio, one with C for Condemnation and one with N. L. for Non Liquet, not proven. Calvinus, Lex.