KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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THIS. When "this" and "that" refer to different things before expressed, "this" re fers to the thing last mentioned, and "that" to the thing first mentioned. Russell v. Kennedy, 66 Pa. 251. THIS DAY SIX MONTHS. Fixing "this day six months," Or "three months," for the next stage of a bill, is one of the modes in which the house of lords and the house of commons reject bills of which they disapprove. A bill rejected in this manner cansot be reintroduced in the same session. Wharton. THISTLE-TAKE. It was a custom with in the manor of Halton, in Chester, that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should pay a halfpenny a-piece to the lord of the fee. And at Fiskerton, in Nott inghamshire, by ancient custom, if a 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 pas sage through which one can fare, (travel;) that is, a street or highway affording an unobstructed 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." See Cemetery Ass'n v. Meninger, 14 Kan. 315; Mankato v. Warren, 20 Minn. 150 (Gil. 128); Wig gins v. Tallmadge, 11 Barb. (N. Y.) 462. 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; FTL-UM AQUJE; FILUM Vi.a:. 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. See State v. Cushing, 17 Wash. 544, 50 Pac. 512; State v. Brownlee, 84 Iowa, 4X3, 51 N. W. 25; Cote v. Murphy, 159 Pa. 420, 28 Atl. 190, 23 L. R. A. 135, 39 Am. St Rep. 686. Sending threatening letters is the name of the offense of sending letters containing threats of the kinds recognized by the statute as criminal. See People v. Grifl5n, 2 Barb. (N. Y.) 429. THREE-DOLLAR PIECE. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of three THREATENING LETTERS.

dollars; authorized by the seventh section of the act of February 21, 1'853. THRENGES. Vassals, but not of th* lowest degree; those who held lands of the chief lord. THRITHING. In Saxon and old English law. The third part of a county; a division 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. 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. Rex v. Edwards, 6 Car. & P. 401. This word is sometimes equivalent to "over;" as in a statute in ref* erence to laying out a road "through" certain grounds. Hyde Park v. Oakwoods Cemetery Ass'n, 119 111. 147, 7 N. E. 627. THROW OUT. To ignore, (a bill of in dictment.) 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, wheth er the point of the weapon be sharp or not. State v. Lowry, 33 La. Ann. 1224. THROAT. THROUGH. THRUSTING. THUDE-WEALD. A woodward, or per son that looks after a wood. THURINGIAN CODE. One of the "bar barian codes," as they are termed; supposed by Montesquieu to have been given by Theod oric, king of Austrasia, to the Thuringians, 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 en titled to some right or privilege therein men tioned or described; such, for example, are railroad tickets, theater tickets, pawn tickets, THRYMSA. A Saxon coin worth four pence. Du Fresne.