TABES DORSALIS

In medical jurisprudence. This is another name for locomotor ataxia. Tabetic dementia is a form of mental derangement or insanity complicated with tabes dorsalis, which generally precedes, or sometimes follows, the mental attack. … [Read more...] about TABES DORSALIS

Latin: In the civil law. A shop-keeper. Dig. 14, 3, 5, 7. In old English law. A taverner or tavern-keeper. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12, … [Read more...] about TABERNARIUS

In old records. A public Inn, or house of entertainment Cowell. … [Read more...] about TABERNACULUM

An officer among the Romans who reduced to writing and into proper form, agreements, contracts, wills, and other instruments, and witnessed their execution. The term tabellio is derived from the Latin tabula, seu tabella, which in this sense, signified those tables or plates covered with wax which were then used instead of paper. 2. Tabelliones differed from notaries in many … [Read more...] about TABELLIO

Latin: In Roman law. A tablet Used in voting, and in giving the verdict of juries; and, when written upon, commonly translated "ballot" The laws which introduced and regulated the mode of voting by ballot were called "leges tabeUaria." Calvin.; 1 Kent Comm. 232, note, … [Read more...] about TABELLA