TITHING-PENNY

In Saxon and old English law. Money paid to the sheriff by the several tithings of his county. Cowell … [Read more...] about TITHING-PENNY

In Saxon law. This was the name of the head or chief of a decennary. In modern English law, he is the same as an under-constable or peace-officer. In modern law. A constable. "After the introduction of justices of the peace, the offices of constable and tithing-man became so similar that we now regard them as precisely the same." Willc, Const. Introd. In New England. A parish … [Read more...] about TITHING-MAN

One of the civil divisions of England, being a portion of that greater division called a "hundred." It was so called because ten freeholders with their families composed one. It is said that they were all knit together in one society, and bound to the king for the peaceable behavior of each other. In each of these societies there was. one chief or principal person, who, from … [Read more...] about TITHING

In English law. The tenth part of the increase, yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants. 2 Bl. Comm. 24. A species of Incorporeal hereditament, being an ecclesiastical inheritance collateral to the estate of the land, and due only to an ecclesiastical person by ecclesiastical law. 1 Crabb, Real … [Read more...] about TITHES

One who gathers tithes. … [Read more...] about TITHER