Latin: A witness; one who gives evidence In court or who witnesses a document Testis de visa praeponderat aliis. 4 Inst 279. An eye-witness is preferred to others. Testis lnpanaris snffieit ad factum in lupanari. Moore, 817. A lewd person is a sufficient witness to an act committed in a brothel. Testis nemo in sna eansa esse potest No one can be a witness in his own cause. … [Read more...]

In old English law. The Rochester text. An ancient manuscript containing many of the Saxon laws, and the rights, customs, tenures, etc., of the church of Rochester, drawn up by Ernulph, bishop of that see from A. D. 1114 to 1124. Cowell. … [Read more...]

An old law French term, denoting evidence or testimony or a witness. Testmoignes ne poent testifier le negative, mes l'affirmative. Witnesses cannot testify to a negative; they must testify to an affirmative. 4 Inst. 279. … [Read more...]

old Eng. law. The land which was granted by the Saxon kings to their thains or thanes was so called. Crabb's C. L. 10. The name of a coin. The thaler of Prussia and of the northern states of Germany is deemed as money of account, at the custom-house, to be of the value of sixty-nine cents. Act of May 22, 1846. 2. The thaler of Bremen, of seventy-two grotes, is deemed of the … [Read more...]

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