Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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erence to laying out a road "througn" certain grounds. 119 111. 147, 7 N. E. Rep. 627. THROW OUT. To ignore, (a bill of in dictment.) THRUSTING. Within the meaning of a criminal statute, "thrusting" is not neces sarily an attack with a pointed weapon; it means pushing or driving with force, whether the point of the weapon be sharp or not. 33 La. Ann. 1224. THRYMSA. A Saxon coin worth four pence. Du Fresne. THUDE-WEALD. A woodward, or per son that looks after a wood. THURINGIAN CODE. One of the "barbarian codes," as they are termed; sup posed by Montesquieu to have been given by Theodoric, king of Austrasia, to the Thurin gians, who were his subjects. Esprit des Lois, lib. 28, c. 1. THWERTNICK. In old English law The custom of giving entertainments to a sheriff, etc., for three nights. TICK. A colloquial expression for credit or trust; credit given for goods purchased. TICKET. In contracts. A slip of pa per containing a certificate that the person to whom it is issued, or the holder, is entitled to some right or privilege therein mentioned or described; such, for example, are railroad tickets, theater tickets, pawn tickets, lottery tickets, etc. In election law. A ticket is a paper up on which is written or printed the names of the persons for whom the elector intends to vote, with a designation of the office to which each person so named is intended by him to be chosen. Pol. Code Cal. § 1185. TICKET OF LEAVE. In English law. A license or permit given to a convict, as a reward for good conduct, particularly in the penal settlements, which allows him to go at large, and labor for himself, before the ex piration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions, and revocable upon sub sequent misconduct. TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN. A con. vict who has obtained a ticket of leave. TIDAL. In order that a river may be "tidal" at a given spot, it may not be nec essary that the water should be salt, but the spot must be one where the tide, in the ordi nary and regular course of things, flows and reflows. 8 Q. B. Div. 630.

native or a cottager killed a swine above a year old, he paid to the lord a penny, which purchase of leave to kill a hog was also called "thistle-take." CowelL THOROUGHFARE. The term means, according to its derivation, a street or passage through which one can fare, (travel;) that is, a street or highway affording an unob structed exit at each end into another street or public passage. If the passage is closed at one end, admitting no exit there, it is called a "cul de sac." THRAVE. In old English law. A meas ure of corn or grain, consisting of twenty four sheaves or four shocks, six sheaves to every shock. Cowell. THREAD. A middle line; a line run ning through the middle of a stream or road. See FILUM; FILUM AQU^E; FILUM VLSS. THREAT. In criminal law. A menace; a declaration of one's purpose or intention to work injury to the person, property, or rights of another. A threat has been defined to be any menace of such a nature and extent as to unsettle the mind of the person on whom it operates, and to take away from his acts that free, voluntary action which alone constitutes consent. Abbott. THREATENING LETTERS. Sending threatening letters is the name of the offense of sending letters containing threats of the kinds recognized by the statute as criminal. THREE- DOLLAR PIECE. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of three dollars; authorized by the seventh sec tion of the act of Feb. 21, 1853. THRENGES. Vassals, but not of the lowest degree; those who held lands of the chief lord. THRITHING. In Saxon and old En glish law. The third part of a county; a di vision of a county consisting of three or more hundreds. Cowell. Corrupted to the modern "riding," which is still used in Yorkshire. 1 Bl. Comm. 116. THROAT. In medical jurisprudence. The front or anterior part of the neck. Where one was indicted for murder by "cut ting the throat" of the deceased, it was held that the word "throat" was not to be con fined to that part of the neck which is scien tifically so called, but must be taken in its common acceptation. 6 Car. & P. 401. THROUGH. This word is sometimes equivalent to "over;" as in a statute in ref

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