T

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...] about TEXTUS ROFFENSIS

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...] about TESTMOIGNE

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...] about THAINLAND

Texas Environmental Law Journal … [Read more...] about Tex. Envtl. L.J.

German. A term used In topography to designate a line representing the deepest part of a continuous depression in the surface, such as a watercourse; hence the middle of the deepest part of the channel of a river or other stream. See Iowa v. Illinois, 147 U. S. 1, 13 Sup. Ct 239, 37 L. Ed 55; Keokuk & H. Bridge Co. v. People, 145 111. 596, 34 N. E. 482. … [Read more...] about THALWEG