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Totted

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A good debt to the crown, i. e. a debt paid to the sheriff, to be by him paid over to the king. Cowell. See Foreign Apposer.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A good debt to the crown, i. e., a debt paid to the sheriff, to be by him paid over to the king. Cowell; Mozley & Whitley.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

A good debt to the king noted as such by an officer, called the " foreign apposer," writing the word lot opposite to it, in the estreat-roU in the exchequer, to indicate that for so much (Lat. tot) the sheriff must account to the king. The accounts given of this usage indicate that, from time to time, " tot " was written against the sum charged in the exchequer books against a solvent or paying debtor, to denote that the demand was esteemed worth its face, — good for so much as the sum set down. Hence, " totted debts " came to mean good, solvent demands. Totted is a term used in Stat. 42 Edw.