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measure. A vessel of wine or oil, containing four hogsheads. … [Read more...] about TUN

Latin: Baseness; infamy; immorality; turpitude. Tuta est custodia quse sibimet creditor. Hob. 340. That guardianship is secure which is intrusted to itself alone. … [Read more...] about TURPITUDO

A town-reeve or ballliff. Cowell. … [Read more...] about TUNGREVE

Latin: In the civil law. Tutelage ; that species of guardianship which continued to the age of puberty; the guardian being called "tutor" and the ward, "pupillus." 1 Dom. Civil Law, b. 2, tit. 1, p. 260. Tutela legitime. Legal tutelage; tutelage created by act of law, as where none had been created by testament Inst. 1, 15, pr. Tutela testamentaria. Testamentary tutelage or … [Read more...] about TUTELA

Scotch law. Juratory caution is that which a suspender swears is the best he can offer in order to obtain a suspension. Where the suspender cannot, from his low or suspected circumstances, procure unquestionable security, juratory caution is admitted. … [Read more...] about TURATORY CAUTION