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TERRA NOEMANOBUM. Land held by a Norman. Paroch. Antiq. 197. TERRA NOVA. Land newly converted from wood ground or arable. Cowell. TERRA PTTTURA. Land in forests, held by the tenure of furnishing food to the keepers therein. 4 Inst. 307. TERRA SABULOSA. Gravelly or sandy ground. TERRA SALICA. In Salic law. The land of the house; the land within that in closure which belonged to a German house. No portion of the inheritance of Salic land passes to a woman, but this the male sex ac quires ; that is, the sons succeed in that in heritance. Lex Salic, tit. 62, § 6. TERRA TESTAMENTALIS. Gavel kind land, being disposable by will. Spel tnan. TERRA VESTITA. Land sown with corn. Cowell. TERRA WAINABILIS. Tillable land. Cowell. TERRA WARRENATA. Land that has the liberty of free-warren. TBEEiB DOMINICALES REGIS. The demesne lands of the crown. TERRAGE. In old English law. A kind of tax or charge on land; a boon or duty of plowing, reaping, etc. Cowell. TERRAGES. An exemption from all uncertain services. Cowell. TERRARIUS. In old English law. A landholder. TERRE-TENANT. He who is literally In the occupation or possession of the land, as distinguished from the owner out of pos session. But, in a lnoie technical sense, the person who is seised of the land, though not in actual occupancy of it. 4 Watts & S. 256; 1 Eden. 177. TERRIER. In English law. A land roll or survey of lands, containing the quan tity of acres, tenants' names, and such like; and in the exchequer there is a terrier of all the glebe lands in England, made about 1338. In general, an ecclesiastical terrier contains a detail of the temporal possessions of the church in every parish. Cowell; Tomlins; Mozley & Whitley. TERRIS BONIS ET CATALLIS RE HABENDIS POST PURGATIONEM. A

writ for a clerk to recover his lands, goods, and chattels, formerly seized, after he had cleared himself of the felony of which he was accused, and delivered to his ordinary to bo purged. Reg. Grig. TERRIS ET CATALLIS TENTIS ULTRA DEBITUM LEVATUM. A judicial writ for the restoring of lands or goods to a debtor who is distrained above the amount of the debt. Reg, Jud. TERRIS LIBERANDIS. A writ that lay for a man convicted by attaint, to bring the record and process before the king, and take a fine for his imprisonment, and then to deliver to him his lands and tene ments again, and release him of the stiip and waste. Reg. Orig. 232. Also it was a writ for the delivery of lands to the heir, after homage and relief performed, or upon security taken that he should perform them. Id. 293. TERRITORIAL, TERRITORIALITY. These terms are used to signify connection with, or limitation with reference to, a par ticular country or territory. Thus, "terri torial law" is the correct expression for the law of a particular country or state, although "municipal law" is more common. "Terri torial waters" are that part of the sea adja cent to the coast of a given country which is by international law deemed to be within the sovereignty of that country, so that its courts have jurisdiction over offenses com mitted on those waters, even by a person on board a foreign ship. Sweet. TERRITORIAL COURTS. Thecourts established in the territories of the United States. TERRITORY. A part of a country sep arated from the rest, and subject to a par ticular jurisdiction. In American law. A portion of the United States, not within the limits of any state, which has not yet been admitted as a state of the Union, but is organized, with a sepaiate legislature, and with executive and judicial officers appointed by the president. TERRITORY OF A JUDGE. The territorial jurisdiction of a judge; the bounds, or district, within which he may lawfully ex ercise his judicial authority. TERROR. Alarm; fright; dread; the state of mind induced by the apprehension of hurt from some hostile or threatening event or manifestation; fear caused by the appear

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