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TENT 299 TBBAI, or TUHBYE TENT, a portable pavilion or lodge, consisting of some flexible material, such as skins, matting, canvas, or other strong textile fabric, stretched over and sup- ported on poles. Among uncivilized and wandering tribes tents have been the ordinary dwelling places from the earli- est times, but among civilized nations they are principally used as temporary lodgings for soldiers when engaged in the field, for travelers on an expedition, or for providing accommodation, refresh- ment, etc., for large bodies of people col- lected together out of doors on some special occasion, as at horse races, fairs, cricket matches, or the like. Military tents are made of canvas, supported by one or more poles, and distended by means of ropes fastened to pegs driven into the ground. Tents of a large size, such as are used for out-of-door fetes, are known as marquees. Also an apparatus used in field pho- tography; a substitute for the usual dark room. It consists of a box provided with a yellow glass window in front, and fur- nished with drapery at the back, so as to cover the operator and prevent access of light to the interior. It is usually pro- vided with shelves and racks inside, de- veloping tray, and a vessel of water over- head, having an elastic tube passing to the inside, to convey water for washing the plate. In Scotland, a kind of pulpit of wood erected out-of-doors, in which clergymen used to preach when the people were too numerous to be accommodated within doors. TENTERDEN, CHARLES ABBOT, BABON, an English jurist; born a bar- ber's son in Canterbury, Oct. 7, 1762. A foundationer at King's School, Canter- bury, of which he was captain at 17, he gained an exhibition which enabled him to proceed to Corpus Christi College, Ox- ford. Here he obtained a scholarship; in 1784 the chancellor's medal for Latin verse, in 1786 for an English essay; graduated in 1785, and soon after became fellow and tutor of his college. Entered at the Middle Temple, he was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1796. He joined the Oxford circuit and obtained a large practice. In 1801 he became recorder of Oxford, and next year pub- lished his clear and learned treatise on the "Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen." In 1816 he accepted a puisne judgeship in the Court of Common Pleas; and in 1818 he was knighted, and chosen to succeed Lord Ellenborough as Chief- Justice of the King's Bench. He was raised to the peerage in 1827. In the House of Lords he strongly opposed the Catholic Relief Bill, and in his last speech he made a vow that if the Reform Bill, that "appalling bill," passed, he would never again take his seat as a peer. He fell ill at Bristol, while presiding at the trial of the mayor for misconduct dur- ing the Reform riots, and died suddenly, Nov. 4, 1832. TENURE, the act, manner, or right of holding property, especially real es- tate. Land may be held according to two main principles, feudal or allodial (see these words). The former is the prin- ciple universal in England. In the United States the title to land is essentially al- lodial, and every tenant in fee-simple has an absolute and perfect title. Yet in technical language his estate is called an estate in fee-simple, and the tenure free and common socage. Also the considera- tion, condition, or service, which the oc- cupier of land gives to his landlord for the use of his land; and the manner of holding in general; the terms or condi- tions on which anything is held or re- tained. TENITRE-OF-OFFICE ACT, in the United States, a bill passed by Congress in February, 1867, limiting the powers of the President in removals from office. Among other things it took from the President the power to remove members of his cabinet excepting by permission of the Senate, declaring that they should hold office "for and during the term of the President by whom they may have been appointed, and for one month there- after, subject to removal by and with the consent of the Senate." President Johnson vetoed this bill (March 2) when it was passed over his veto and became a law. TENURES OF LAND. Nearly all the real property of England is supposed to have been granted by a superior lord, and to be held from him in consideration of certain services to be rendered to him by the tenant. By an act of Parliament, military tenures were changed into socage. TEPLITZ, a watering place in Bo- hemia; situated in a beautiful valley near the Erzgebirge; 20 miles N. W. of Leit- meritz. The baths are supplied from about a dozen hot alkalo-saline springs, are taken exceedingly hot, and have great virtue in restoring persons afflicted with gout, rheumatism, etc. One of the springs is used also for drinking. Pop. about 27,000. TERAI, or TURRYE, the name of the narrow strip of swampy jungle^ which uniformly underlies the lowest ridge of