The laity; secular people. … [Read more...] about TEMPORALITY
TEMPORALITIES
In English law. The lay fees of bishops, with which 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. Spelman. In a wider sense, the money revenues of a church, derived from pew rents, subscriptions, donations, collections, cemetery charges, and other sources. See Barabasz … [Read more...] about TEMPORALITIES
TEMPORARY CUSTODY
In a separation or divorce proceeding, an order granting one parent temporary physical possession of a child. … [Read more...] about TEMPORARY CUSTODY
TEMENTALE, OR TENEMENTALE
A tax of two shillings upon every plowed land, a decennary. … [Read more...] about TEMENTALE, OR TENEMENTALE
TEMPORARY INSANITY
A defense in a criminal trial where the defendant claims that they were temporarily and briefly in an excited state where their frame of mind could not appreciate the difference between right and wrong. … [Read more...] about TEMPORARY INSANITY