A phrase used as the name of a writ of error from inferior courts, when the error is supposed to be as well in giving the judgment as in awarding execution upon it. (Tam in redditione judicii, quam in adjudication executionis.) A venire tam quam was one by which a jury was summoned, as well to try an issue as to inquire of the damages on a default. 2 Tidd, Pr. 722, 895. … [Read more...] about TAM QUAM
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TASSUM
In old English law. A heap; a hay-mow, or hay-stack. Faenum in tassis, hay In stacks. Reg. Orig. 96. … [Read more...] about TASSUM
TALE
(A) comm. law. A denomination of money in China. (B) In old pleading. The plaintiff's count, declaration, or narrative of his case 8 Bl. Comm. 293. The count or counting of money. Said to be derived from the same root as "tally." Cowell. Whence also the modern word "teller". … [Read more...] about TALE
TAME
Domesticated; accustomed to man; reclaimed from a natural state of wildness. In the Latin phrase, tame animals are described as domites naturae. … [Read more...] about TAME
TATH
In the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, the lords of manors anciently claimed the privilege of having their tenants' flocks or sheep brought at night upon their own demesne lands, there to be folded for the Improvement of the ground, which liberty was called by the name of the "tath." Spelman. … [Read more...] about TATH