Synod
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An ecclesiastical assembly. SYR (Law Fr.) Sir. A word used by counsel in addressing a court; Keilw. 170b. T. An abbreviation of Termino, or Term, in the old reports. An abbreviation of Teste, in old vfrits.
1 Inst. Cler. 13.
T. Every person who was convicted of felony, short of murder, and admitted to the benefit of clergy, was at one time marked with this letter upon the bravyn of the thumb. The practice is abolished.
7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 27.