Definition
"Tee of" does not appear to be a recognized legal term of art. The source material provided under this heading is a fragment of a Rapalje & Lawrence entry that was truncated mid-sentence. The surviving text concerns two distinct substantive entries: (1) the Committee of Ways and Means, a legislative body charged with oversight of revenue measures, and (2) the phrase "ways heretofore enjoyed" and "ways now occupied or enjoyed," which are terms of art appearing in grants of easements.
Based on available source material, the most likely explanation is that "tee of" is either a scanning artifact, a typographical corruption, or a truncated heading from the original print dictionary — not a legal term with independent meaning.
Researchers encountering this heading in a Law Mind source should treat it as a non-entry and consult the substantive terms that appear in the underlying text.
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Common Confusion
Researchers should not conflate this apparent headword with any of the following legitimate terms that may have generated it:
— COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS: The legislative body responsible for revenue legislation. The Rapalje & Lawrence text describes its function accurately: oversight of loans, duties, taxes, tolls, and other revenue-raising measures.
— WAYS HERETOFORE ENJOYED: A term of art in conveyancing, appearing in grants of easements, referencing rights of way as they existed prior to a conveyance. Cited in Rapalje & Lawrence to L.R. 6 Eq. Cas. 36.
— WAYS NOW OCCUPIED OR ENJOYED: A related conveyancing phrase used in easement grants to describe ways defined by current use at the time of the grant.
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Why It Matters in Research
This entry illustrates a known hazard in digitized historical legal dictionaries: OCR errors, broken page scans, and mid-column truncations can produce apparent headwords that have no actual legal meaning. The text assigned to this heading in Rapalje & Lawrence plainly belongs to adjacent entries — likely "WAYS AND MEANS, COMMITTEE OF" and "WAYS HERETOFORE ENJOYED" — that were either split across a page break or corrupted during digitization.
If you arrived here looking for one of those substantive terms, see the cross-references below. If you are researching the phenomenon of corrupted headwords in historical legal dictionaries, this entry is a clean example of how mid-entry truncation produces false headwords that can mislead keyword searches.
Do not cite "tee of" as a legal term. No authority supports it as such.
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Historical Dictionary Support
Rapalje & Lawrence (the only source provided) yields no coherent definition for "tee of." The text assigned to this heading reads as a continuation of a prior entry on the Committee of Ways and Means, followed by partial entries on "WAYS HERETOFORE ENJOYED" and "WAYS NOW OCCUPIED OR ENJOYED." This strongly suggests the headword is a digitization artifact — possibly a corrupted rendering of a prior term's closing syllables, or a page-fragment header misidentified as a term during indexing.
No other historical legal dictionary in the Law Mind corpus is cited as containing this term. Its absence from Bouvier, Black, and Burrill is consistent with the conclusion that no such term exists.
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