Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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guest; and the third night, an awn-binde, a domestic. Bract. 1. 3. THIRD PARTIES. A term used to in dude all persons who are not parties to the contract, agreement, or instrument of writ ing by which their interest in the thing con veyed is sought to be affected. 1 Mart. (N. S.) 384. THIRD PENNY. A portion (one-third) of the amount of all fines and other profits of the county court, which was reserved for the earl, in the early days when the jurisdiction of those courts was extensive, the remainder going to the king. THIRDBOROUGH, or THIRDBO BOW. An under-constable. Cowell. THIRDINGS. The third part of the corn growing on the land, due to the lord for a heriot on the death of his tenant, within the manor of Turfat, in Hereford. Blount. THIRDS. The designation, in colloquial language, of that portion of a decedent's per sonal estate (one-third) which goes to the widow where there is also a child or chil dren. THIRLAGE. In Scotch law. A servi tude by which lands are astricted or "thirled" to a particular mill, to which the possessors must carry the grain of the growth of the astricted lands to be ground, for the payment of such duties as are either expressed or im plied in the constitution of the right. Ersk. Inst. 2, 9, 18. THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES. See AR TICLES OF RELIGION. THIS. When "this" and "that" refer to different things before expressed, "this" re fers to the thing last mentioned, and "that" to the thing first mentioned. 66 Pa. St. 251. THIS DAY SIX MONTHS. Fixing "this day six months," or "three months," for the next stage of a bill, is one of the modes in which the house of lords and the house of commons reject bills of which they disap prove. A bill rejected in this manner can not be reintroduced in the same session. Wharton. THISTLE-TAKE. It was a custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester, that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should pay a halfpenny a-piece to the lord of the fee. A.nd at Fiskerton, in Nottinghamshire, by ancient custom, if a

Things are dissolved as they be con tracted. Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 7. Things grounded upon an ill and void beginning cannot have a good perfec tion. Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, n. 8. THINGS IN ACTION. A thing in ac tion is a right to recover money or other per sonal property by a judicial proceeding. Civil Code Cal. § 953. See CHOSE IN ACTION. Things in action, entry, or re-entry cannot be granted over. 19 N. Y. 100, 103. Things Incident cannot be severed. Finch, Law, b. 3, c. 1, n. 12. Things incident pass by the grant of the principal. 25 Barb. 284, 310. Things incident shall pass by the grant of the principal, but not the principal by the grant of the incident. Co. Litt. 152a, 1516; Broom, Max. 433. THINGS PERSONAL. Goods, money, and all other movables, which may attend the owner's person wherever he thinks prop er to go. 2 Bl. Gomra. 16. Things personal consist of goods, money, and all other mov ables, and of such rights and profits as relate to movables. 1 Steph. Comm. 156. THINGS HEAL. Such things as are permanent, fixed, and immovable, which cannot be carried out of their place; as lands and tenements. 2 Bl. Comm. 16. This defi nition has been objected to as not embracing incorporeal rights. Mr. Stephen defines things real to "consist of things substantial and immovable, and of the rights and profits annexed to or issuing out of these." 1 Steph. Comm. 156. Things real are otherwise de scribed to consist of lands, tenements, and hereditaments. THINGUS. In Saxon law. A thane or nobleman; knight or freeman. Cowell. THINK. In a special finding by a jury, this word is equivalent to "believe," and ex presses the conclusion Of the jury with suffi cient positiveness. 59 Iowa, 414, 13 N. W. Rep. 424. THIRD-NIGHT-AWN-HINDE. By *ho laws of St. Edward the Confessor, if any man lay a third night in an inn, he was called a "third-night-awn-hinde," and his host was answerable for bim if he committed any offense. The first night, forman-night, or uncuth, (unknown,) he was reckoned a stranger; the second night, twa-night, a

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