TALZIE, HEIR IN. Scotch¹ law. Heirs of talzie or tailzie, are heirs of estates entailed². 1 Bell's Com. 47.

TANGIBLE³ PROPERTY. That which may be felt or touched; it must necessarily be corporeal⁴, but it may be real or personal. A house and a horse are, each, tangible property. The terni is used in contradistinction to property not tangible. By the latter expression, is; meant that kind of property which, though in possession as respects the right, and, consequently, not strictly⁵ choses in action, yet differ; from goods, because they are neither tangible nor visible, though the thing produced from the right be perfectly⁶ so. In this class may be mentioned copyrights and patent-rights. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 467, 478.

TARDE VENIT, Practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff to a writ⁷, when it came into his hands too late to be executed before the return day.

2. The sheriff is required to show that he has yielded obedience⁸ to the writ, or give a good excuse for his omission⁹; and he may say, quod breve adeo tarde venit quod exequi non possunt. It is usual to return the writ with an indorsement of tarde venit. Com. Dig. Return, D 1.

TARE¹⁰, weights. An allowance in the purchase and sale of merchandise, for the weight of the box, bag, or cask, or other thing, in which the goods are packed. It is also an allowance made for tiny defect, waste, or diminution¹¹ in the weight, quality or quantity of goods. It differs from tret. (q. v.)

TARIFF¹². Customs, duties, toll¹³. or tribute payable¹⁴ upon merchandise to the general government is called tariff; the rate of customs, &c. also bears this name and the list of articles liable to duties is also called the tariff.

2. For the tariff of duties imposed on the importation of foreign merchan-dise into the United States.