Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier; CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA


TITHES, Eng. law. A right to the tenth part of the produce of, lands, the stocks
upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants. These tithes are
raised for the support of the clergy.  Fortunately, in the United States, the
clergy can be supported by the zeal of the people for religion, and there are,
no tithes....


TITHING, Eng. law. Formerly a district containing ten men with their families.
In each tithing there was a tithing man whose duty it was to keep the peace, as
a constable now is bound to do. St. Armand, in his Historical Essay on the
Legislative Power of England, p. 70, expresses, an opinion that the tithing was
composed not of ten common families, but of ten families of lords of a manor. 


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