Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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Tempus enim modus tollendi obliga tiones et aotiones, quia tempus currit contra desides et sui juris contemptores. Eor time is a means of destroying obligations and actions, because time runs against the slothful and contemners of their own rights. Fleta, 1. 4, c. 5, § 12. TEMPUS SEMESTRE. Lat. In old English law. The period of six months or half a year, consisting of one hundred and eighty-two days. Cro. Jac. 166. TEMPUS UTILE. Lat. In the civil law. A profitable or advantageous period of time. A term which begins to run from a certain event, only when he for whom it runs has obtained a knowledge of the event, and in which, when it has once begun to run, those days are not reckoned on which one has no experiundi potestas; i. e., on which one cannot prosecute his rights before a court. Dig. 3, 6, 6; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 195. TENANCY is the relation of a tenant to the land which he holds. Hence it signifies (1) the estate of* a tenant, as in the expres sions "jointtenancy," "tenancy in common;" (2) the term or interest of a tenant for years or at will, as when we say that a lessee must remove his fixtures during his tenancy. Sweet. TENANCY, JOINT. See JOINT TEN ANCY. TENANT. In the broadest sense, one who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any kind of right or title, whether in fee, for hie, for years, at will, or otherwise. Cowell. In a more restricted sense, one who holds lands of another; one who has the temporary use and occupation of real property owned by another person, (called the "landlord,") the duration and terms of his tenancy being usually fixed by an instrument called a "lease." The word "tenant" conveys a much more com prehensive idea in the language of the law than it does in its popular sense. In popular language it is used more particularly as opposed to the word "landlord," and always seems to imply that the land or property is not the tenant's own, but be longs to some other person, of whom he immedi ately holds it. But, in the language of the law, every possessor of landed property is called a "ten ant" with reference to such property, and this, whether such landed property is absolutely his own, or whether he merely holds it under a lease for a certain number of years. Brown. In feudal law. One who holds of an other (called "lord" or "superior") by some service; as fealty or rent.

which was also a part of the house of the Templars, and called the "Outer Temple," because situated without Temple Bar. Enc. Lond. TEMPORAL LORDS. The peers of England; the bishops are not in strictness held to be peers, but merely lords of parlia ment. 2 Steph. Comm. 330, 345. TEMPORALIS. Lat. In the civil law. Temporary; limited to a certain time. TEMPORALIS ACTIO. Lat. An ac tion which could only be brought within a certain period. TEMPORALIS EXCEPTIO. Lat. A temporary exception which barred an action for a time only. TEMPORALITIES. In English law. The lay fees of bishops, with which their churches are endowed or permitted to be en dowed by the liberality of the sovereign, and in virtue of which they become barons and lords of parliament. Spelrnan. TEMPORALITY. The laity; secular people. TEMPORARY. That which is to last for a limited time only, as distinguished from that which is perpetual, or indefinite, in its duration. TEMPORE. Lat. In the time of. Thus, the volume called "Cases tempore Holt" is a collection of cases adjudged in the king's bench during the time of Lord Holt. Wall. Rep. 398. TEMPORIS EXCEPTIO. Lat. In the civil law. A plea of time; a plea of lapse of time, in bar of an action. Corresponding to the plea of prescription, or the statute of limitations, in our law. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 213. TEMPUS. Lat. In the civil and old En glish law. Time in general. A time limited; a season; e. g., tempus pessonis, mast time in the forest. TEMPUS CONTINUUM. Lat. In the civil law. A continuous or absolute period of time. A term which begins to run from a certain event, even though he for whom it runs has no knowledge of the event, and in which, when it has once begun to run, all the days are reckoned as they follow one an other in the calendar. Dig. 3, 2,8; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 195.

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