KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

TELEGRAPHIC

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TELEGRAPHIC. A word occasionally used in old English law to describe ancient documents or written evidence of things past Blount TELEPHONE. In a general sense, the name "telephone" applies to any instrument or apparatus which transmits sound beyond the limits of ordinary audibility. But, since the recent discoveries in telephony, the name is technically and primarily restricted to an instrument or device which transmits sound by means of electricity and wires similar to telegraphic wires. In a secondary sense, however, being the sense in which it is most commonly understood, the word "telephone" constitutes a generic term, having reference generally to the art of telephony as an insti tution, but more particularly to the appara tus, as an entirety, ordinarily used in the transmission, as well as in the reception, of telephonic messages. Hockett v. State, 105 Ind. 261, 5 N. E. 178, 55 Am. Rep. 201. TELLER. One who numbers or counts. An officer of a bank who receives or pays out money. Also one appointed to count the votes cast in a deliberative or legislative as sembly or other meeting. The name was also given to certain officers formerly attach ed to the English exchequer. The teller is a considerable officer in the ex chequer, of which officers there are four, whose office is to receive all money due to the king, and to give the clerk of the pells a bill to charge him therewith. They also pay to all persons any money payable by the king, and make weekly and yearly books of their receipts and payments, which they deliver to the lord treas urer. Cowell; Jacob. —Tellers in parliament. In the language of parliament, the "tellers" are *the members of the house selected to count the members when a division takes place. In the house of lords a division is effected by the "non-con tents" remaining within the bar, and the "con tents" going below it, a teller being appointed for each party. In the commons the "ayes" go into the lobby at one end of the house, and the "noes" into the lobby at the other end, the house itself being perfectly empty, and two tellers being appointed for each party. May, Pari. Pr.; Brown. Anglo-Saxon charter of land. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. l f p. 10. TELLWORC. That labor which a ten ant was bound to do for his lord for a cer tain number of days. TEMENTALE, or TENEMENTALE. A tax of two shillings upon every plow-land, a decennary. TEMERE. Lat In the civil law. Rash ly; inconsiderately. A plaintiff was said temere Utigare who demanded a thing out of malice, or sued without just cause, and who could show no ground or cause of action. Bnissonius. TELLIGRAPHUM. An

TEMPEST. A violent or furious storm; a current of wind rushing with extreme vio lence, and usually accompanied with rain or snow. See Stover v. Insurance Co., 3 Phila. (Pa.) 39; Thistle v. Union Forwarding Co., 29 U. p. C. P. 84. TEMPLARS. A religious order of knight hood, instituted about the year 1119, and so called because the members dwelt in a part of the temple of Jerusalem, and not far from the sepulcher of our Lord. They enter* tained Christian strangers and pilgrims char itably, and their protession was at first to defend travelers from highwaymen and rob bers. The order was suppressed A. D. 1307, and their substance given partly to the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and partly to other religious orders. Brown. TEMPLE. Two English inns of court, thus called because anciently the dwelling place of the Knights Templar. On the sup pression of the order, they were purchased by some professors of the common law, and converted into hospitia or inns of cfurt They are called the "Inner" and "Middle Temple," in relation to Essex House, which was also a part of the house of the Templars^ and called the "Outer Temple," because sit uated without Temple Bar. Enc. Lond. TEMPORAL LORDS. The peers of Eng land ; the bishops are not in strictness held to be peers, but merely lords of parliament 2 Steph. Comm. 330, 345. TEMPORALIS. Lat. In the civil law. Temporary; limited to a certain time. ^-Temporalis actio. An action which could only be brought within a certain period.—Tem poralis exceptio. A temporary exception which barred an action for a time only. In English law. The lay fees of bishops, with which their churches are endowed or permitted to be en dowed by the liberality of the sovereign, and in virtue of which they become barons and lords of parliament. Spelman. In a wider sense, the money revenues of a church, de rived from pew rents, subscriptions, dona tions, collections, cemetery charges, and oth er sources. See Barabasz v. Kabat, 86 Md. 23, 37 Atl. 720. people. TEMPORARY. That which is to last for a limited time only, as distinguished from that which is perpetual, or indefinite, in its duration. Thus, temporary alimony ia granted for the support of the wife pending the action for divorce. Dayton v. Drake, 64 Iowa, 714, 21 N. W. 158. A temporary in junction restrains action or any change in the situation of affairs until a hearing on TEMPORALITIES. TEMPORALITY. The laity; secular