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Thelonium

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

An abolished writ for citizens or burgesses to assert their right to exemption from toll. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 226.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

An abolished writ for citizens or burgesses to assert their right to exemption from toll. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 226.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

A writ that formerly lay for the citizens of any city, or burgesses of any town that had a charter or prescription to free them from toll, against the officers of any town or market who would constrain thera to pay toU of their merchandise, contrary to their said grant or prescription. Fitz. Nat. Brev. fol. 226. Abolished by Stat. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. eh. 27, § 36. Tomlins., THEN. A clause in a lease, providing 3 that, if the farm was sold, " then and in that case " the orchard should be appraised, and the tenant allowed therefor, was held to mean, not at the time of the sale, but in the event of a sale. Pintard v. Irwin, 20 N. J. L. 497, 505. See a similar interpretation in Ash v. Coleman, 24 Barb. 645. Then and there. Cannot be replaced hy immediately, as a substitute, in an indictment for murder. State v. Reakey, 1 Mo. App. 3.