Tabula

Lat.

In the civll law. A table or tablet; a thin sheet of wood, which, when covered with wax, was used for writing.

2. A board or plank. Tabula in naufragio: a plank in a shipwreck,— a iigurative expression used to denote that preference or priority among mortgagees which is gained by tacking.

In the civil law. A table or tablet; a thin sheet of wood which, when covered with wax, was used for writing; an instrument written on such a tablet

A plank or board. Tabula in naufragio. A plank in a shipwreck: a thing saved out of a general loss. In English law, the right in a third mortgagee, who did not linow of the existence of a second mortgage, to acquh-e the first mortgage, and, by tacking his own to that, to secure satisfaction of both incumbrances before the second received anything.'' See Tacking.

A Latin word translated table or tablet; the name of a thin sheet of wood, which, when covered with wax, was used for writing. An instrument written on such a tablet was also called tabula; much as, in English, " table " is applied to a writing exhibiting many