In the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, the lords of manors anciently claimed the privilege of having thelr tenants’ flocks or sheep brought at night upon their own demesne lands, there to be folded for the improvement of the ground, which liberty was called by the name of the “tath." Spelman
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Lat. A common bull; because he was free to all the tenants withln such a manor, liberty, etc
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A cartel of commerce, a book of rates, a table or catalogue, drawn usually in alphabetical order, containing the names of several klnds of merchandise, wlth the duties or customs to be pald for the same, as settled by authority, or agreed on between the several princes and states that hold commerce together. Enc. Lond.; Railway Co. v. Cushman, 92 Tex. 623, 50 S. W. 1009
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In old Engllsh law. A heap; a hay-mow, or hay-stack. Foenum in tas* is, hay In stacks. Reg. orig. 96
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Lat. In practice. The name of a return made by the sberiff to a writ, when it came Into his hands too late to be executed before the return-day
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A deficiency in the weight or quantity of merchandise by reason of the weight of the box, cask, bag, or other recep-tacle which contains it and is weighed with it. Also an allowance or abatement of a cer-lain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer, on account of the weight df such box, cask, etc. Napier v. Barney, 5 Blatchf. 191, 17 Fed. Cas. 1149. See Tbet
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Span. In Spanish law. Pre-emption. white, New Recop. b. 2, tit 2, c. 3
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In Mexican law. The right enjoyed by nn usufructuary of property, of buying the property at the same price at which the owner offers it to any other person, or is willing to take from another. Civ. Code Mex. art 992
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In old Irish law. A spe-cles of tenure, founded on anclent usage, which allotted the lnherltance of lands, cas-tles, etc., to the “oldest and worthiest man of the deceased’s name and blood.” It was abolished in the relgn of James I. Jacob; wharton
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In old Engllsh law. Tan-nery; the trade or business of a tanner. Fleta, llb. 2, c. 52, I 35
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Property which may be touched; such as is perceptible to the senses; corporeal property, whether real or personal. The phrase is used in op-position to such species of property as pat-ents, franchises, copyrights, rents, ways, and incorporeal property generally
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A phrase used as the name of a writ of error from inferior courts, when the error is supposed to be as well in giving » the judgment as in awarding execution upon it. (Tam in redditione judicii, quam in adjudications exccutionis
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Domesticated; accustomed to man; reclaimed from a natural state of wlld-ness. In the Latin phrase, tame animals are descrlbed as domita) natura
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Y, or TALLY. A stick cut lnto two parts, on each whereof is marked, with notches or otherwise, what is due between debtor and creditor. It was the ancient mode of keeping accounts, one part was held by the creditor, and the other by the debtor. The use of tallies in the exchequer was abolished by St. 23 Geo. III. c. 82, and the old tallies were ordered to be destroyed by St 4 & 5 wm. IV. c. 15. wharton
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L. Lat A tax or tribute; tal-lage; a share taken or cut out of any one’s Income or means. Spelman
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L. Lat. A term including all taxes. 2 Inst. 532; People v. Brooklyn, 9 Barb. (N. Y.) 551; Bernards Tp. v. Allen, 61 N. J. Law. 228, 39 Ati. 716
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A word used metaphorically for a share of a man's substance paid by way of tribute, toll, or tax, being derived from the French “failler," which signifies to cut a piece out of the whole. Cowell. See State v. Switzler, 143 Mo. 287, 45 S. W. 245, 40 L. R. A. 280,65 Am. St Rep. 653; Lake Shore, etc., R. Co. v. Grand Rapids, 102 Mich. 374, 60 N. W. 767, 20 L. R. A. 195
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Lat. In the civil law. Like for like; punishment in the same kind; the pun
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Upon pleading the judgment of an inferior court, the proceedings preliminary to such judg-ment, and on which the same was founded, must, to some extent, appear in the plead-ing, but the rule is that they may be alleged with a general allegation that “such pro-ceedings were had,” Instead of a detailed account of the proceedings themselves, and this general allegatlon is called the “tal iter processum est" A like concise mode of stat-ing former proceedings in a . suit is adopted at the present day in chancery proceedings upon petitions and in actions in the nature of bills of revivor and supplement. Brown
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A person summoned to act as a juror from among the by-standers in the court. Linehan v. Rtate, 113 Ala. 70. 21 South. 497; Shields v. Niagara County Sav. Bank, 5 Thomp. & C. (N. Y.) 587
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In old pleading. The plalntlfTs count, declaration, or narrative of his case. 8 Bl. Comm. 293
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