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Tally Definition
(Fr. tailler; Ital. tagliare, i. e., scindere, to cut off). A stick cut into two parts, on each whereof is “marked, with notches or otherwise, what is due betweendebtor and creditor. Hence the tallier of the exchequer is now called the “teller.” Lex. Const. 205; Coweli. One party must have one part, and the other the other, and they must match. Tallies in the exchequer are abolished by 2 Geo. III. c. 82. There was the same usage in France. Diet, de I’Acad. Franc; Poth. Obi. pt. 4, c. 1, art. 2, § 8.
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(Fr. tailler; Ital. tagliare, i. e., scindere, to cut off). A stick cut into two parts, on each whereof is “marked, with notches or otherwise, what is due betweendebtor and creditor. Hence the tallier of the exchequer is now called the “teller.” Lex. Const. 205; Coweli. One party must have one part, and the other the other, and they must match. Tallies in the exchequer are abolished by 2 Geo. III. c. 82. There was the same usage in France. Diet, de I’Acad. Franc; Poth. Obi. pt. 4, c. 1, art. 2, § 8.
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