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In English law. A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and. granted to the king by parliament; formerly the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject. 1 Bl. Comm. 308. . In English ecelesiastieal law. The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but by statute 26 Hen. VIII. c 3, transferred to the … [Read more...] about TENTHS

This phrase is used in the English courts of equity, to signify that when a term has been created for a particular purpose, which is satisfied, and the instrument by which it is created does not provide for a cesser of the term, on the happening of the event, the benefit in it becomes subject to the rules of equity, and must be moulded and disposed of according to the equitable … [Read more...] about TERM ATTENDANT ON THE INHERITANCE

law of Scotland. A life-rent competent by law to widows who have not accepted of special provisions in the third part of the heritable subjects in which the husband died infeft. 2. The terce takes place only where the marriage has subsisted for a year and day, or where a child has been born alive of it. No terce is due out of lands in which the husband was not infeft, unless in … [Read more...] about TERCE

A writ whereby the record of an indictment, and the process thereupon, was called out of another court into the queen's bench. Reg. Orig. 69. … [Read more...] about TENORE INDICTAMENTI MITTENDO

Which he held. When the tenancy is ended and the tenant is sued in an action of waste, the averment of tenure is in the tenuit. … [Read more...] about TENUIT