Toft

A place or piece of ground on which a house formerly stood, which has been destroyed by accident or decay. It also signifies a messuage. TOG AT I (Lat.) In Roman law. Under the empire, when the toga had ceased to be the usual costume of the Romans, advocates were nevertheless obliged to wear it whenever they pleaded a cause. Hence they were called togati. This denomination received an oflicial or legal sense in the imperial constitutions of the fifth and sixth centuries; and the words tog(iti, consortium (corpus, ordo, collegium) togatorum, frequently occur in those acts,