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Hebrew word meaning the teaching and referring to the oral Torah or the codified texts that make up the Jewish Rabbinic commentary on the Torah or Old Testament. It consists of the Mishnah and Gemara, which documents the disputes of Jewish law between Rabbinical scholars and how they were resolved. It was codified and completed circa 500 CE. … [Read more...] about TALMUD

A witness who has specific and important information. Also refers to a witness that is to be indicted by a grand jury. … [Read more...] about TARGET WITNESS

(verb) - To annex some junior lien to a first Hen, thereby acquiring priority over an intermediate one. See TACKING.(noun) - In Scotch Law, a term corresponding to the English "lease," and denoting the same species of contract. Tack duty. Kent reserved upon a lease. … [Read more...] about TACK

Engl. law. The union of securities given at different times, so as to prevent any intermediate purchasers claiming title to redeem, or otherwise discharge one lien, which is prior, without redeeming or discharging other liens also, which are subsequent to his own title. 2. It is an established doctrine in the English chancery that a bona fide purchaser and without any notice of … [Read more...] about TACKING

In Scotch law. A tenant or lessee; one to whom a tack is granted. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 2, p. 153. … [Read more...] about TACKSMAN