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TIE

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An equal number of points, votes or credits on opposing sides resulting in no winner. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition (verb) - v. To bind. "The parson is not tied to find the parish clerk."(noun) - When, at an election, neither candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, but each has the same number, there is said to be a "tie." So when the number of votes … [Read more...] about TIE

THREAT

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(A) crim. law. A menace of destruction or injury to the lives or property of those against whom it is made. 2. Sending threatening letters to persons for the purpose of extorting money, is said to, be a misdemeanor at common law. To be indictable, the threat must be of a nature calculated to overcome a firm and prudent man. The party who makes a threat may be held to bail for … [Read more...] about THREAT

TIDESMAN

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in English law, are certain officers of the custom-house, appointed to watch or attend upon ships till the customs are paid; and they are so called because they go aboard the ships at their arrival in the mouth of the Thames, and come up with the tide. Jacob. … [Read more...] about TIDESMAN

TIDE

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The ebb and flow of the sea. 2. Arms of the sea, bays, creeks, coves, or rivers, where the tide ebbs and flows, are public, and all persons may use the same for the purposes of navigation and for fishing, unless restrained by law. To give these rights at common law, the tide must ebb and flow: the flowing of the waters of a lake into a river, and their reflowing, being not the … [Read more...] about TIDE