This phrase signifies things which are fixed to the freehold of the demised premises, but which the tenant may detach and take away, provided he does so in season, wall v. Hinds, 4 Gray (Mass.) 256, 270, 64 Am. Dec. 64
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Such a re-pair as will render a house fit for present habitation
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In the broadest sense, one who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any kind of rlght or title, whether in fee, for life, for years, at will, or otherwise. Cowell
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1. A kind of customary estate in the north of England, fcdl-ing under the general class of copyhold, hat
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Lat. In the clvll and old Engllsh law. Time in general. A tlme limited; a season; e. g., tempus pcssonis, mast time in the forest
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That which is to last for a limited time only, as distinguished from that which is perpetual, or indefinite, in Its duration. Thus, temporary alimony is granted for the support of the wife pending the action for divorce. Dayton v. Drake, 64 Iowa, 714. 21 N. W. 158. A temporary injunction restrains actiou or any change in the situation of affairs until a hearlng oo
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Lat. In the time of. Thus, the volume called “Cases tempore Holt" is a collectlon of cases adjudged in the king's bench during the time, of Lord Holt. wall. Rep. 398
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In Engllsh law. The lay fees of bishops, with w'hich their churches are endowed or permitted to be endowed by the liberality of the sovereign, and in virtue of which they become barons and lords of parliament. Spelmau. In a wider sense, the money revenues of a church, de* rived from pew rents, subscriptions, dona* tions, collections, cemetery charges, and oth-er sources. See Barabasz v. Rabat, SO Md. 23, 37 Atl. 720
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The peers of Eng-land; the bishops are not in strictness held to he peers, but merely lords of parliament 2 Steph. Comm. 830, 345
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Lat in the civil law. Temporary; limited to a certain time
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A religious order of knight-hood, instituted about the year 1119, and so called because the members dwelt in a part of the temple of Jerusalem, and not far from the sepulcher of our Lord. They enter-tained Christian strangers and pilgrims char-ltably, and their profession was at first te defend travelers from highwaymen and rob* bers. The order was suppressed A. D. 1307, and their substance given partly to the knights of SL John of Jerusalem, and partly to other religious orders. Brown
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Two English inns of court, thus called because anciently the dwelling place of the Kuights Templar, on the sup* presslon of the order, they were purchased by some professors of the common law, and converted into hospitia or inns of court. They are called the “Inner" and “Middle Temple," in relation to Essex House, which was also a part of the house of the Templars* and called the “outer Temple,” because situated without Temple Bar. Euc. Loud
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Lat. In the civil law. Rash-ly; inconsiderately. A plaintiff was said temere litigare who demanded a thing out of malice, or sued without just cause, and who could show no ground or cause of action. Brissonius
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A violent or furious storm; a current of wind rushing with extreme violence, and usually accompanied with rain or snow. See Stover v. Insurance Co., 3 Phila. (Pa.) 39; Thistle v. Union Forwarding Co^ 29 U. C. O. P. 84
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That labor wbich a ten-ant was bound to do for his lord for a certain number of days
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In a general sense, the name “telephone" applies to any instrument or apparatus which transmits sound beyond the limits of ordinary audibility. But, since the recent discoveries in telephony, the name is technically and primarily restricted to an Instrument or device which transmits sound hy means of electricity and wires similar to telegraphic wires. In a secondary sense, however, being the sense in which it is most commonly understood, the word "telephone” constitutes a generic term, having reference generally to the art of telephony as an insti-tutlon, but more particularly to the appara-tus, as an entirety, ordinarily used in the transmission, as well as in the reception, of telephonic messages. IIockett v. State, 105 Ind. 261, 5 N. E. 178. 55 Am. Rep. 20L
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An Anglo-Saxon charter of land. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 1, p. 10
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In the English telegraph act of 1863, the word is defined as “a wire or wires used for the purpose of telegraphic communication, with any casing, coating, tube, or pipe inclosing the same, and any apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of telegraphic communication.” St. 26 & 27 Vict. c. 112, | 3
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A word occasionally used in old English law to describe ancient documents or written evidence of things past Blount
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Sax. In old English law. Land of a thane or Saxon noble; land grant-ed by the crown to a thane or lord. Cowell; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 5
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A telegraphic dispatch; a message sent by telegraph
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