THOROUGHFARE

A street or way so open that one can go through and get out of it without returning. It differs from a cul de sac, which is open only at one end. 2. Whether a street which is not a thoroughfare is a highway, seems not fully settled. … [Read more...] about THOROUGHFARE

It was a custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester, that if, In driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should pay a halfpenny a-piece to the lord of the fee. And at Flskerton, in Nottinghamshire, by ancient custom, if a native or a cottager killed a swine above a year old, he paid to the lord a penny, which purchase of … [Read more...] about THISTLE-TAKE

Fixing "this day six months," or "three months," for the next stage of a bill, is one of the modes in which the house of lords and the house of commons reject bills of which they disapprove. A bill rejected in this manner cannot be reintroduced in the same session. Wharton. … [Read more...] about THIS DAY SIX MONTHS

When "this" and "that" refer to different things before expressed, "this" refers to the thing last mentioned, and "that" to the thing first mentioned. Russell T. Kennedy, 66 Pa. 261. … [Read more...] about THIS

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