Tonoderach
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In old Scotch law. A thief taker (qui fures exquirit).
LL. Ken. Reg. § 5; Spelman.
TONSURA (Lat. from tondere, to shavei or clip).
In old English law
A shaving or polling; the having the crown of the head, shaven; tonsure. One of the peculiar badges of a clerk or clergyman. Habitus et tonsura clericalis, the clerical habit and tonsure without which no man originally could be admitted to the privilege of clergy.
2 Hale, P. C. 372; 4 Bl. Comm. 366; Nov. 5, c. 2.