KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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TERRA

TERROR

barren land.— Terra dominica, or indomi nicata. The demesne land of a manor. Cow ell.— Terra exeultabilis. Land which may be plowed. Mon. Ang. i. 426.— Terra extenden da. A writ addressed to an escheator, etc., that he inquire and find out the true yearly value of any land, etc., by the oath of twelve men, and to certify the extent into the chancery. Reg. Writs, 293.— Terra frosea, or frisca. Fresh land, not lately plowed. Cowell.— Terra by data. Land subject to the payment of hydage. Selden.— Terra lucrabilis. Land gained from the sea or inclosed out of a waste. Cowell.— Terra Normanornm. Land held by a Nor man. Paroch. Antiq. 197.— Terra nova. Land newly converted from wood ground or arable. Cowell.— Terra putura. Land in forests, held by the tenure of furnishing food to the keepers therein. 4 Inst. 307.— Terra sabulosa. Grav elly or sandy ground.— Terra Salica. In Salic law. The land of the house; the land within that inclosure which belonged to a German house. No portion of the inheritance of Salic land passes to a woman, but this the male sex acquires; that is, the sons succeed in that in heritance. Lex Salic, tit. 62, § 6.— Terra tes tamentalis. Gavel-kind land, being disposa ble by will. Spelman.— Terra vestita. Land sown with corn. Cowell.— Terra wainabilis. Tillable land. Cowell.— Terra warrenata. Land that has the liberty of free-warren.— Ter rse dominioales regis. The demesne lands of the crown. Terra moaeni vacua occupant! con eeditnr. 1 Sid. 347. Land lying unoccupied Is given to the first occupant TERRAGE. In old English law. A kind of tax or charge on land; a boon or duty of plowing, reaping, etc. Cowell. TERRE-TENANT. He who is literally in the occupation or possession of the land, as distinguished from the owner out of pos session. But, in a more technical sense, the person who is seised of the land, though not In actual occupancy of it, and locally, in Pennsylvania, one who purchases and takes land subject to the existing lien of a mort gage or judgment against a former owner. See Dengler v. Kiehner, 13 Pa. 38, 53 Am. Dec. 441; Hulett v. Insurance Co., 114 Pa. 142, 6 Atl. 554. In English law. A land roll or survey of lands, containing the quan tity of acres, tenants' names, and such like; and in the exchequer there is a terrier of all the glebe lands in England, made about 1338. In general, an ecclesiastical terrier contains a detail of the temporal possessions of the church in every parish. Cowell; Tomlins; Mozley & Whitley. TERRIS BONIS ET CATALLIS RE HABENDIS POST PURGATIONEM. A writ for a clerk to recover his lands, goods, TERRIER. TERRAGES. An exemption from all uncertain services. Cowell. TERRARIUS. In old English law. A landholder.

and chattels, formerly seized, after he had cleared himself of the felony of which ha was accused, and delivered to his ordinary to be purged. Reg. Orig. TERRIS ET CATALLIS TENTIS UL TRA DEBITUM LEVATUM. A judicial writ for the restoring of lands or goods to a debtor who is distrained above the amount of the debt Reg. Jud. A writ that lay for a man convicted by attaint to bring the record and process before the king, and take a fine for his imprisonment, and then to deliver to him his lands and tene ments again, and release him of the strip and waste. Reg. Orig. 232. Also it was a writ for the delivery of lands to the heir, after homage and relief performed, or upon security taken that he should perform them. Id. 293. TERRITORIAL, TERRITORIALITY. These terms are used to signify connection with; or limitation with reference to, a par ticular country or territory. Thus, "terri torial law" is the correct expression for the law of a particular country or state, although "municipal law" is more common. "Terri torial waters" are that part of the sea adja cent to the coast of a given country which is by international law* deemed to be within the sovereignty of ^hat country, so that its courts have jurisdiction over offenses com mitted on those waters, even by a person on board a foreign ship. Sweet The courts established In the territories of the United States. TERRITORY. A part of a country sep arated from the rest and subject to a par ticular jurisdiction. In American law.' A portion of the United States, not within the limits of any state, which has not yet been admitted as a state of the Union, but is organized, with a separate legislature, and with executive and judicial officers appointed by the president See Ex' parte Morgan (D. C.) 20 Fed. 304; People v. Daniels, 6 Utah, 288, 22 Pac. 159, 5 L. R. A. 444; Snow v. U. S., 18 Wall. 317, 21 L. Ed. 784. —Territory of a judge. The territorial jurisdiction of a judge; the bounds, or district within which he taay lawfully exercise his judicial authority. Phillips v. Thralls, 26 Kan. 781. Alarm; fright; dread; the state of mind induced by the apprehension of hurt from some hostile or threatening event or manifestation; fear caused by the appear ance of danger. In an indictment for riot, it must be charged that the acts done were TERRIS LIBERANDIS. TERRITORIAL COURTS. TERROR.