THANELANDS

Such lands as were granted by charter of the Saxon kings to their thanes with all immunities, except from the trinoda neeessitas. Cowell. … [Read more...] about THANELANDS

An Anglo-Saxon nobleman; an old title of honor, perhaps equivalent to "baron." There were two orders of thanes, the king's thanes and the ordinary thanes. Soon after the Conquest this name was disused. Cowell. … [Read more...] about THANE

A certain pait of the king's land or property, of which the ruler or governor was called "thane." Cowell. … [Read more...] about THANAGE OF THE KING

German. A term used In topography to designate a line representing the deepest part of a continuous depression in the surface, such as a watercourse; hence the middle of the deepest part of the channel of a river or other stream. See Iowa v. Illinois, 147 U. S. 1, 13 Sup. Ct 239, 37 L. Ed 55; Keokuk & H. Bridge Co. v. People, 145 111. 596, 34 N. E. 482. … [Read more...] about THALWEG

old Eng. law. The land which was granted by the Saxon kings to their thains or thanes was so called. Crabb's C. L. 10. The name of a coin. The thaler of Prussia and of the northern states of Germany is deemed as money of account, at the custom-house, to be of the value of sixty-nine cents. Act of May 22, 1846. 2. The thaler of Bremen, of seventy-two grotes, is deemed of the … [Read more...] about THAINLAND