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Teinds

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879), Bouvier (1839)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In Scotch law. That liquidated proportion of the rents or goods of the people which is due to churchmen for performing divine service, or exercising the other spiritual functions proper to their several offices. Ersk. Inst. 2. 10. 2.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Scotch law. A term corresponding to tithes (q. v.) in English ecclesiastical law.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In Scotch law. A sentences of the court of sessions, (who are now in the place of tiie commissioners for the valuation of teinds,) determining the extent and value of teinds. Bell. receding of the sea from the land. Callis, Sewers, (53,) 65. See Re Licrion,

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

sc. Tithes. Teind court: v. Cour(, 96.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Is the Scotch law term corresponding to tithes (q. v.) in English ecclesiastical law; and teind court is the designation of a court which has jurisdiction of questions of clergymen's stipends and enforcement of parishioners' tithes.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

in the Scotch law, are that liquid proportion of the rents or goods of the people, which is due to churchmen for performing divine service, or exercising the other spiritual functions proper to their several offices. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. B. 2, t.10,s.2. See Tithes.