Latin: In the civil law. Title ; the source or ground of possession; the means whereby possession of a thing is acquired, whether such possession be lawful or not. In old ecclesiastical law. A temple or church; the material edifice. So called because the priest in charge of it derived therefrom his name and title. Spelman. Titnlns est Justa eansa possidendi id quod nostrum est} dieitur a tuendo. 8 Coke, 153. A title is the just right of possessing that which is our own; it is so called from “tuendo” defending.