Terce
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In Scotch law. A life rent competent by law to widows who have not accepted of special provisions in the third part of the heritable subjects in which the husband died infeft. The terce takes place only where the marriage has subsisted for a year and a day, or where a child has been born alive of it. No terce is due out of lands in which the husband was not infeft, unless in case of a fraudulent omission. Craig, Inst. 423, § 28. The terce is not limited to lands, but extends to teinds, and to servitudes and other burdens affecting lands. Ersk. Inst. 2. 9. 26; Burge, Confl. Laws, 429-435.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In Scots law. Dower; right of dower; a widow's third.