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TERCE, law of Scotland. A life-rent competent by law to widows who have not accepted of special provisions in the third part of the heritable subjects in which the husband died infeft.
     2. The terce takes place only where the marriage has subsisted for a year and day, or where a child has been born alive of it. No terce is due out of lands in which the husband was not infeft, unless in case of a fraudulent omission. Cr. 423, Sec. 28; St. 2, 6, 16. The terce is not limited to lands, but extends to teinds, and to servitudes and other burdens affecting lands. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. B. 2, t. 9, s. 26, 27; Burge on the Confl. of Laws, 429 to 435.
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Terce is somewhat unusual, being illustrated with the 'Adoration of the Shepherds' rather than the more common 'Annunciation to the Shepherds'.
Geofroy Tory's 1531 Book of Hours by Maddocks, Hilary / The La Trobe Journal
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Benedict of Nursia and Pope Benedict XVI know the difference between terce and sext, and which Psalms are said at each.
The chosen by Johnson, Luke Timothy / Commonweal
 
 
 
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