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T T. As an abbreviation, this letter usually stands for either "Territory," "Trinity," "term," "tempore," (in the time of,) or "title." Every person who was convicted of felony, short of murder, and admitted to the benefit of clergy, was at one time marked with this letter upon the brawn of the thumb. The practice is abolished. 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 27. By a law of the Province of Pennsylvania, A. D. 1698, it was provided that a convicted thief should wear a badge in the form of the letter "T.," upon his left sleeve, which badge should be at least four inches long and of a color different from that of his outer gar ment Linn, Laws Prov. Pa. 275. T. R. E. An abbreviation of "Tempore Regis Edtoardi," (in the time of King Ed ward,) of common occurrence in Domesday, when the valuation of manors, as it was in the time of Edward the Confessor, is re counted. Cowell. TABARD. A short gown; a herald's coat; a surcoat TABARDER. One who wears a tabard or short gown; the name is still used as the title of certain bachelors of arts on the old foundation of Queen's College, Oxford. Enc. Lond. TABELLA. Lat In Roman law. A tab let. Used in voting, and in giving the ver dict of juries; and, when written upon, com monly translated "ballot" The laws which introduced and regulated the mode of voting by ballot were called "leges tabellarice." Cal vin.; 1 Kent, Comm. 232, note. TABELLIO. Lat Jfx Roman law. An officer corresponding in some respects to a notary. His business was to draw legal in struments, (contracts, wills, etc.,) and witness their execution. Calvin. TABERNACULUM. In old records. A public inn, or house of entertainment. CJow ell. TABERNARIUS. Lat In the civil law. A shop-keeper. Dig. 14, 3, 5, 7. In old English law. A taverner or tav ern-keeper. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12, § 17. TABES DORSALIS. In medical juris prudence. This is another name for locomo tor ataxia. Tabetic dementia is a form of mental derangement or insanity complicated with tabes dorsalis, which generally precedes, or sometimes follows, the mental attack. TABLE. A synopsis or condensed state ment, bringing together numerous items or

details so as to be comprehended in a single view; as genealogical tables, exhibiting the names and relationships of all the persons composing a family; life and annuity tables, used by actuaries; interest tables, etc. —Table de Marbre. Fr. In old French law. Table of Marble; a principal seat of the ad miralty, so called. These Tables de Marbre are frequently mentioned in the Ordonnance of the Marine. Burrill —Table of cases. An alphabetical list of the adjudged cases cited, referred to, or digested in a legal text-book, volume of reports, or digest, with references to the sections, pages, or paragraphs where they are respectively cited, etc., which is commonly either prefixed or appended to the volume Table rents. In English law. Payments which used to be made to bishops, etc., reserv ed and appropriated to their table or house keeping. Wharton. In Louisiana. A list of creditors of an insol vent estate, stating what each is entitled to. Taylor v. Hollander, 4 Mart. N. S. (La.) 535. TABULA. Lat In the civil law. A ta ble or tablet; a thin sheet of wood, which, when covered with wax, was used for writ ing. TABULA IN NAUFRAGIO. Lat A plank in a shipwreck. This phrase is used metaphorically to designate the power sub sisting in a third mortgagee, who took with out notice of the second mortgage, to acquire the first Incumbrance, attach it to his own, and thus squeeze out and get satisfaction, be fore the second is admitted to the fund. 1 Story, Eq. Jur. § 414; 2 Ves. Ch. 573. TABULiE. Lat In Roman law. Ta bles. Writings of any kind used as evidences of a transaction. Brissonius. —Tabulae nnptiales. In the civil law. A written record of a marriage; or the agreement as to the dos. TABULARIUS. Lat A notary, or ta bellio. Calvin. TAG, TAK. In old records. A kind of customary payment by a tenant Cowell. —Tac free. In old records. Free from the common duty or imposition of tac. Cowell. TACIT. Silent; not expressed; implied or inferred; manifested by the refraining from contradiction or objection; inferred from the situation and circumstances, in the absence of express matter. Thus, tacit con sent is consent inferred from the fact that the party kept silence when he had an op portunity to forbid or refuse. —Tacit acceptance. In the civil law, a tacit acceptance of an inheritance takes place when some act is done by the heir which necessarily supposes hia intention to accept and which TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION.