TIGNUM

Latin: A civil law term for building material; timber. … [Read more...] about TIGNUM

civil law. The name of a servitude; it is the right of inserting a beam or timber from the wall of one house into that of a neighboring house, in order that it may rest on the latter, and that the wall of the latter may bear this weight. … [Read more...] about TIGNI IMMITTENDI

As colloquially applied to a note, bond, mortgage, lease, etc, this term signifles that the clauses providing the creditor's remedy in case of default (as, by foreclosure, execution, distress, etc.) are summary and stringent … [Read more...] about TIGHT

In old records. A close or inclosure; a croft Cowell. … [Read more...] about TIGH

measures. A liquid measure containing the third part of a pipe, or forty-two gallons. … [Read more...] about TIERCE