tignum

The term tignum includes every kind of material employed in building, and the object of this provision is to avoid the necessity of having buildings pulled down; but if through some cause or other they should be destroyed, the owner of the materials, unless he has already sued for double value, may bring a real action for recovery, or a personal action for production.

The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

[30] Apparently _tignum_, as "timber" in English covers material for construction, includes every kind of material used in buildings and in vine-yards.

The Twelve Tables Anonymous

There is the hurrying throng of the streets of Rome with all its dangers and discomforts: nobis properantibus opstat unda prior, magno populus premit agmine lumbos qui sequitur; ferit hic cubito, ferit assere duro alter, at hic tignum capiti incutit, ille metretam. pinguia crura luto, planta mox undique magna calcor et in digito clavus mihi militis haeret. nonne vides quanto celebretur sportula fumo? centum convivae, sequitur sua quemque culina.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

Other words explained are tignum, asser, [Greek: dioikêsis]; and then Agricola proceeds to correct a number of mistakes in Hegius 'letter.

The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

-- This rather pedantic, and now, I think, quite obsolete word (from _tignum_, 'beam') means 'having a common or continuous roof.'

Political Pamphlets George Saintsbury 1889

Besides, if _tignum_ in that place signifies a rafter rather than a beam, as it seems to me to do, then I think it must be the swallow that is alluded to, and not the martin, since the former does frequently build within the roof against the rafters, while the latter always, as far as I have been able to observe, builds without the roof against eaves and cornices.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756

[If he find that another has used his timber (_tignum_) [30] in building a house or in supporting vines,] a person shall not dislodge from the framework the timber fixed in buildings in vineyard; [but he shall have the right of action] for double [damages] against him who has been convicted of fixing [such timber].

The Twelve Tables Anonymous

And yet he who was owner of the materials does not cease to own them, but he cannot bring a real action for their recovery, or sue for their production, by reason of a clause in the Twelve Tables providing that no one shall be compelled to take out of his house materials (tignum), even though they belong to another, which have once been built into it, but that double their value may be recovered by the action called 'de tigno iniuncto.'

The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891