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单词 terce
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tercen.

/təːs/
Forms: Also Middle English teirs, tairs, 1600s tearce.
Etymology: A variant of tierce n.1, now used in a special sense.
1. Obsolete, archaic, or variant form of tierce n.1, in various senses.
2. spec. in Scots Law, A life-rent competent by law to a widow (unless she has accepted some other special provision) of the third of the heritable subjects in which her husband dies infeft, provided that the marriage has endured for a year and a day, or has produced a living child. Cf. dower n.2 1.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > types of widow > widow with share of husband's property > widow's share of property
dowryc1330
free benchc1436
dower1439
jointure1451
terce1473
mordell1552
terce land1552
widow right1569
free bank1606
widowhooda1616
widow's bench1673
widow's chamber1680
widow's terce1684
dower-land1769
jointure-house1785
bench1795
dower-house1862
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > widow's inheritance
dowryc1330
third1396
free benchc1436
dower1439
terce1473
maritagec1503
mordell1552
terce land1552
widow right1569
frank bank1598
free bank1606
widowhooda1616
widow's bench1673
widow's terce1684
1473 in J. Anderson Cal. Laing Charters (1899) 43 The quhilk our teirs extendis ȝerly till viij markis.
1473 in J. Anderson Cal. Laing Charters (1899) 43 Tairs.
1476 Acta Auditorum 19 July Hir brefe of terce anent ye land of Lethbert.
1568 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 619 Thair subwassellis, ladiis of terce, conjunct fearis, and lyverentaris.
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Breve The brieue of Terce.
1681 Sc. Acts Chas. II (1820) VIII. 247/2 (title) Act concerning wives Terces.
c1700 J. Fraser Chron. Frasers (1905) 197 Shee, haveing a tearce of the lordship, was well furnished..with all manner of provision.
1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 286 That Services of Relicts to their Terce pay one Half of special Services.
1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 101 §118 All rights of courtesy and terce competent to the husband or wife of any such creditor.

Compounds

terce land n. the land of which the rent is assigned to a widow's terce (usually in plural).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > types of widow > widow with share of husband's property > widow's share of property
dowryc1330
free benchc1436
dower1439
jointure1451
terce1473
mordell1552
terce land1552
widow right1569
free bank1606
widowhooda1616
widow's bench1673
widow's chamber1680
widow's terce1684
dower-land1769
jointure-house1785
bench1795
dower-house1862
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > widow's inheritance
dowryc1330
third1396
free benchc1436
dower1439
terce1473
maritagec1503
mordell1552
terce land1552
widow right1569
frank bank1598
free bank1606
widowhooda1616
widow's bench1673
widow's terce1684
1552 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 129 Spirituall menis landis, togidder with all waird landis, terce and conjunct fie landis.
1565 in J. Fraser Polichronicon (S.H.S.) 152 Item upon her terce lands of Lovat five oxen.
1581 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 409 Hir haill fermes of hir terce landis of Westraw.

Derivatives

ˈtercer n. (also †tiercear) a widow who has terce.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > types of widow > widow with share of husband's property
lady of dower1439
doweress1519
dowager1530
dowrier1551
tercerc1575
jointress1604
jointuressa1693
dowee1865
douairière1869
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > widow's inheritance > one who has
tercerc1575
c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 336 A Lady tiercear, or conjunct-fear, havand ane tierce or conjunct-fie of ward landis, or blanche landis.
1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. I. ii. ix. §44 The widow [is hence styled] the tercer.
1808–25 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Tercer, tiercer..a term still commonly used in our courts of law.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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