Tag: TI

  • Ticket Of Leave

    Definition of Ticket Of Leave The licence to be at large, which the Home Secretary may at any time grant, upon such condition as he may think fit and with power of revocation, to anyone undergoing penal servitude. (Penal Servitude Act, 1853, s. 9.) Browse You might be interested in these […]

  • Tillett V. Ward

    Definition of Tillett V. Ward ((1882), 10 Q. B. D. 17). An ox belonging to the defendant, while being lawfully driven to market through a street in the town of Stamford, escaped, without there being any negligence on the part of the defendant or the drover, into a shop of the plaintiff, an […]

  • Timber

    Definition of Timber Is properly only oak, ash and elm ; but it includes now all trees used for building. Timber is part of the realty until severed. Cutting timber is waste (q.v.). See Estovers Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Timber in the […]

  • Time Bargain

    Definition of Time Bargain An option (q.v.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Time Bargain in the Dictionaries, Time Bargain in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal […]

  • Tipstaff

    Definition of Tipstaff An officer, in the nature of a constable, attached to the Supreme Court. Since the abolition of imprisonment on mesne process, the functions of the tipstaves have been confined to arresting persons guilty of contempt of Court Browse You might be interested in these […]

  • Tithe

    Definition of Tithe The payment due by the inhabitants of a parish for the support of the parish church, generally payable to the parson of the parish. Originally tithe was payable in kind and consisted of the tenth part of all yearly profits; from the soil (prcedial tithes), from farm stock […]

  • Tithing

    Definition of Tithing A local division or district forming part of a hundred (q.v.), and so called because every tithing formerly consisted of ten freeholders with their families. See Frankpledye Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Tithing in the […]

  • Tithing Man

    Definition of Tithing Man The chief member of a tithing. See Headborough Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Tithing Man in the Dictionaries, Tithing Man in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, […]

  • Title

    Definition of Title (1) The right to ownership of property ; a vestitive fact (Salmond). A title may be : (a) original, where the person entitled does not take from any predecessor, e.g., a patent, copyright, etc. ; and (b) derivative, where the person entitled takes the place of a […]

  • Tipstaff

    Definition of Tipstaff An officer, in the nature of a constable, attached to the Supreme Court. Since the abolition of imprisonment on mesne process, the functions of the tipstaves have been confined to arresting persons guilty of contempt of Court Browse You might be interested in these […]