Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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TIME OUT OF MEMORY

TIDE

TILLAGE. A place tilled or cultivated; land under cultivation, as opposed to lands lying fallow or in pasture. TIMBER. Wood felled for building or other such like use. In a legal sense it gen erally means (in England) oak, ash, and elm, but in some parts of England, and gen erally in America, it is used in a wider sense, which is recognized by the law. The term "timber," as used in commerce, refers generally only to large sticks of wood, squared or capable of being squared for building houses or vessels; and certain trees only having been for merly used for such purposes, namely, the oak, the ash, and the elm, they alone were recognized as timber trees. But the numerous uses to which wood has come to be applied, and the general em ployment of all kinds of trees for some valuable purpose, has wrought a change in the general ac ceptation of terms in connection therewith, and we find that Webster defines "timber" to be "that sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like." This would include all sorts of wood from which any useful articles maybe made, or which may be used to advantage in any class of manufacture or construction. 14 Fed. Rep. 824. TIMBER-TREES. Oak, ash, elm, in all places, and, by local custom, such other trees as are used in building. 2 Bl. Comm. 281. See TIMBER. TIMBERLODE. A service by which tenants were bound to carry timber felled from the woods to the lord's house. Cowell. TIME. The measure of duiation. The word is expressive both of a precise point or terminus and of an interval between two points. In pleading. A point in or space of du ration at or during which some fact is alleged to have been committed. TIME-BARGAIN. In the language of the stock exchange, a time-bargain is an agreement to buy or sell stock at a future time, or within a fixed time, at a certain price. It is in reality nothing more than a bargain to pay differences. TIME IMMEMORIAL. Time whereof the memory of a man is not to the contrary. TIME OF MEMORY. In English law. Time commencing from the beginning of the reign of Richard I. 2 Bl. Comm. 31. Lord Coke defines time of memory to be "when no man alive hath had any proof to the contrary, nor hath anv conusance to the contrary." Co. Litt. 86a, 866. TIME OUT OF MEMORY. Time be yond memory; time out of mind; time to which memory does not extend.

TIDE. The ebb and flow of the sea. TIDE-WATER. Water which falls and rises with the ebb andflowof the tide. The term is not usually applied to the open sea, but to coves, bays, rivers, etc. TIDESMEN, in English law, are cer tain officers of the custom-house, appointed to watch or attend upon ships till the cus toms are paid; and they are so called because they go aboard the ships at their arrival in the mouth of the Thames, and come up with the tide. Jacob. TIE, v. To bind. "The parson is not tied to find the parish clerk." 1 Leon. 94. TIE, n. When, at an election, neither candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, but each has the same number, there is said to be a "tie." So when the number of votes cast in favor of any measure, in a legis lative or deliberative body, is equal to the number cast against it. TIEL. L. Fr. Such. Nul tiel record, no such record. TIEMPO INHABIL. Span. A time of inability; a time when the person is not able to pay his debts, (when, for instance, he may not alienate property to the prejudice of his creditors.) The term is used in Loui siana. 3 Mart. (N. S.) 270; 4 Mart. (N. S.) 292. TIERCE. L. Fr. Third. Tierce mein, third hand. Britt. c. 120. TIERCE. A liquid measure, containing the third part of a pipe, or forty-two gallons. TIGH. In old records. A close or in closure; a croft. Cowell. TIGHT. As colloquially applied to a n ote, bond, mortgage, lease, etc., this term sig nifies that the clauses providing the credit or's remedy in case of default (as, by fore closure, execution, distress, etc.) are sum mary and stringent. TIGNI IMMITTENDI. Lat. In the civil law. The name of a servitude which is the right of inserting a beam or timber from the wall of one house into that of a neigh boring house, in order that it may rest on the latter, and that the wall of the latter may bear this weight. Wharton. See Dig. 8, 2,36. TIGNUM. A civil-law term for building material; timber. TIHLER. In old Saxon law. An accu sation.

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