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This phrase signifies things which are fixed to the freehold of the demised premises, but which the tenant may detach and take […]

Such a re-pair as will render a house fit for present habitation Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the broadest sense, one who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any kind of rlght or title, whether in fee, […]

1. A kind of customary estate in the north of England, fcdl-ing under the general class of copyhold, hat Source: Black’s Law […]

Lat in the Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In the clvll and old Engllsh law. Time in general. A tlme limited; a season; e. g., tempus pcssonis, mast time […]

That which is to last for a limited time only, as distinguished from that which is perpetual, or indefinite, in Its duration. […]

Lat. In the time of. Thus, the volume called “Cases tempore Holt” is a collectlon of cases adjudged in the king’s bench […]

In Engllsh law. The lay fees of bishops, with w’hich their churches are endowed or permitted to be endowed by the liberality […]

The laity; secular people Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The peers of Eng-land; the bishops are not in strictness held to he peers, but merely lords of parliament 2 Steph. Comm. […]

Lat in the civil law. Temporary; limited to a certain time Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A religious order of knight-hood, instituted about the year 1119, and so called because the members dwelt in a part of the […]

Two English inns of court, thus called because anciently the dwelling place of the Kuights Templar, on the sup* presslon of the […]

Lat. In the civil law. Rash-ly; inconsiderately. A plaintiff was said temere litigare who demanded a thing out of malice, or sued […]

A violent or furious storm; a current of wind rushing with extreme violence, and usually accompanied with rain or snow. See Stover […]

That labor wbich a ten-ant was bound to do for his lord for a certain number of days Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

or TENEMENTALE. A Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In a general sense, the name “telephone” applies to any instrument or apparatus which transmits sound beyond the limits of ordinary audibility. […]

An Anglo-Saxon charter of land. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 1, p. 10 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the English telegraph act of 1863, the word is defined as “a wire or wires used for the purpose of telegraphic […]

A word occasionally used in old English law to describe ancient documents or written evidence of things past Blount Source: Black’s Law […]

Sax. In old English law. Land of a thane or Saxon noble; land grant-ed by the crown to a thane or lord. […]

A telegraphic dispatch; a message sent by telegraph Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Those entltled to tithes Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)