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TOFTMAN

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In old English law. The owner of a toft Cowell; Spelman. … [Read more...]

TOMBSTONE AD

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Slang for a newspaper advertisement for the sale or offering of stock, said to resemble the general appearance of a tombstone. … [Read more...]

TOGATI

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Rom. civ, law. Under the empire, when the toga had ceased to be the usual costume of the Romans, advocates were nevertheless obliged to wear it whenever they pleaded a cause. Hence they were called togati. This denomination received an official or legal sense in the imperial constitutions of the fifth and sixth centuries, and the words togati, consortium (corpus, ordo, … [Read more...]

TON

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Twenty hundred weight, each hundred weight being one hundred and twelve pounds avoirdupois. … [Read more...]

TOKEN

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(A) contracts, crimes. A document or sign of the existence of a fact. 2. Tokens are either public or general, or privy tokens. They are true or false. When a token is false and indicates a general intent to defraud, and it is used for that purpose, it will render the offender guilty of the crime of cheating; but if it is a mere privy token, as counterfeiting a letter in another … [Read more...]

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