A writ that lay for a man convicted hy attaint, to bring the record and process before the king, and take a flne for his imprisonment, and then to deliver to him his lands and teue-ments again, and release him of the strip and waste. Reg. orig. 232. Also it was a writ for the delivery of lands to the heir, after homage and relief performed, or upon security taken that he should perform them. Id. 293
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These terms are used to slgnlfy connection with, or limitation with reference to, a par-tlcular country or territory. Thus, "terri-torial law" is the correct expression for the law of a particular country or state, aitnough “municipal law” is more common. “Terri-torlal waters” are that part of the sea adja-oent to the coast of a given country whlch is by international law deemed to be wlthin the sovereignty of that country, so that its courts have jurisdiction over offenses com-mltted on those waters, even by a person on board a foreigu ship. Sweet
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A Judlcinl writ for the restoring of lands or goods to a debtor who is distrained above the amount of the debt Reg. Jud
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He who is Uterally in the occupation or possession of the land, as distinguished from the owner out of pos-sessiou. But, in a more technical sense, the person who is seised of the land, though not in actual occupancy of it, and locally, in Pennsylvania, one who purchases and takes land subject to the existing lien of a mort-gage or judgment against a former owner. See Dengler v. Kieliner, 13 Pa. 38, 53 Am. Dec. 441; Hulett v. lnsurance Co., 114 Pa. 142, 6 Atl. 554
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In English law. A land-roll or survey of lands, containing the quan-tity of acres, tenants’ names, and such like; and in the exchequer there is a terrier of all the glebe lands in England, made about 1338. In general, an ecclesiastical terrier contains a detail of the temporal possessions of the church in every parish. Cowell; Tomlins; Mozley A whltley
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An exemption from all uncertain services. Cowell
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In old English law. A klnd of tax or charge on land; a boon or duty of plowing, reaping, etc. Cowell
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In Engllsh ecdesl-astical practlce. The tlme of one or two years, allowed by law for the determination of appeals. IIalllfax, Clvll Law, b. 3, c. 11. no. 38
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He that holds lands or tenements for a term of years or llfe. Bnt we generally confine the application of the word to a person entitled for a term of years. Mozley & w’hitley
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In Engllsh ecclesiastical practice. A time for the deter-mlnatlon of appeals, shorter than the terminus juris, appointed by the judge. Hallifax, Civll Law, b. 3, C. 11, no. 36
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A wrlt which lay for the reverBloner, when the possession was with-held by the lessee, or a stranger, after the determlnatlon of a lease for years. Brown
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Lat Ends; bounds; llmlt-lng or termlnatlng polnts
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In Spanlsh law. A com-mon; common land. Common because of vicinage, whlte, New Recop. b. 2, tlt 1, C-6, { 1, note
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Socleties, in England, where the members commence thelr monthly contrlbu-tions on a particular day. aud continue to pay them until the realization of shares to a glven amount for each member, by the advance of the capltal of the society to such members as requlred it, and the payment of
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Terms of the law. The name of a lexicon of the law French words and other technicalities of legal language in old tlmes
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Thls name is sometimes given to property of such a nature that Its duration is not perpetual or indefinite, but is llmited or llable to terminate upon tlie happening of an event or the expiration of a fixed term; e. g., a leasehold, a life-annuity, etc
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A term applied in the west Indies to a person one of whose parents
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A word or phrase; an expression ; particularly one which possesses a flx-ed and known meaning in some science, art, or profession
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CE. In Scotch law. Dower; a wid-ow’s right of dower, or a right to a life-estate in a third part of the lands of whicb her husband dled seised
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