Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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books of their receipts and payments, which they deliver to the lord treasurer. Cowell; Jacob. TELLERS IN PARLIAMENT. In the language of parliament, the "tellers" are the members of the house selected to count the members when a division takes place. In the house of lords a division is effected by the "non-contents" remaining within the bar, and the "contents" going below it, a teller being appointed for each party. In the commons the "ayes" go into the lobby at one end of the house, and the "noes" into the lobby at the other end, the house itself being perfectly empty, and two tellers being ap pointed for each party. May, Farl. Pr.; Brown. TELLIGRAPHUM. An Anglo-Saxon charter of land. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 1, p. 10. TELLWORC. That labor which a ten ant was bound to do for his lord for a cer tain number of days. TEMENTALE, or TENEMENTALE. A tax of two shillings upon every plow-land. a decennary. TEMERE. Lat. In the civil law. Rash ly; inconsiderately. A plaintiff was said temere litigare who demanded a thing out of malice, or sued without just cause, and who could show no ground or cause of action. Brissonius. TEMPEST. A violent or furious storm; a current of wind rushing with extreme vio lence, and usually accompanied with rain oi snow. See 29 U. C. C. P. 84. TEMPLARS. A religious order ol knighthood, instituted about the year 1119, and so called because the members dwelt in a part of the temple of Jerusalem, and not far from the sepulcer of our Lord. They en tertained Christian strangers and pilgrims charitably, and their profession was at first to defend travelers from highwaymen and robbers. The order was suppressed A. D. 1307, and their substance given partly to the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and partly to other religious orders. Brown. TEMPLE. Two English inns of court, thus called because anciently the dwelling place of the Knights Templar. On the suppression of the order, they were pur chased by some professors of the common law, and converted into hospitia or inns of court. They are called the "Inner" and "Middle Temple," in relation to Essex House,

TEIND COURT. In Scotch law. A court which has jurisdiction of matters relat ing to teinds, or tithes. TEIND MASTERS. Those entitled to tithes. TEINDS. In Scotch law. A term cor responding to tithes (g. ».) in English eccle siastical law. TEINLAND. Sax. In old English law. Land of a thane or Saxon noble; land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. Cowell; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 5. TELEGRAM. A telegraphic dispatch; a message sent by telegraph. TELE GRAPH. In the English telegraph act-of 1863, the word is defined as "a wire or wires used for the purpose of telegraphic communication, with any casing, coating, tube, or pipe inclosing the same, and any ap paratus connected therewith for the purpose of telegraphic communication." St. 26 & 27 Viet. c. 112, § 3. TELEGRAPHIES. things past. Elount. Written evidence of TELEPHONE. In a general sense, the name "telephone" applies to any instrument or apparatus which transmits sound beyond the limits of oidinary audibility. But, since the recent discoveries in telephony, the name is technically and primarily restricted to an instrument ordevice which transmits sound by means of electricity and wires similar to telegraphic wires. In a secondary sense, however, being the sense in which it is most commonly understood, the word "telephone" constitutes a generic term, having reference generally to the art of telephony as an insti tution, but more particularly to the appara tus, as an entirety, ordinarily used in the transmission, as well as in the reception, of telephonic messages. 105 Ind. 261, 5 IS". E. Rep. 178. TELLER. One who numbers or counts. An officer of a bank who receives or pays out money. Also one appointed to count the votes cast in a deliberative or legislative as sembly or other meeting. The name was also gi ven to certain officers formerly attached to the English exchequer. The teller is a considerable officer in the excheq uer, of which officers there are four, whose office is to receive all money due to the king, and to give the clerk of the pells a bill to charge him there with. They also pay to all persons any money payable by the king, and make weekly and yearly

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