C. 182, 10 S. BE
159, 17 Am. St. Rep. 672. To the same purport are also the following statutory definitions:
Terms beginning with "C" (875 total)
C. 238, 17 S. B. 49
—Par of exchange. In mercantile law. precise equality or equivalency of any given sum or quantity of money in the coin of one country, and the like sum or quantity of money in the coin of any other foreign country into...
C. 436; Appleton Mfg. Co
v. Star Mfg. Co., 60 Fed. 411,90 C. A. 42.
C. 46, 88 8. BD
26, 83 Am. St. Rep. 661; Sanderson v. Scranton, 105 Pa. 472; Hurd v.
C. 54, 27 8S. B. 54
IRRELEVANT. In the law of evidence. Not relevant; not relating or applicable to the matter in issue; not supporting the issue.
C. A. 658; The Wellington, 29 Fed. Cas
626. —Clean hands. It is a rul cog at he aity, that plaintiff must come with “clean ha must be free from reproach in his aondice er there is this limitation to the rule: that his conduct can only be excepted to in re...
C. A. 89; Walker v. Giddings, 103 Mich
344, 61 N. W. 512.-Fraternal insurance. The form of, life (or accident) insurance furnished by a fraternal beneficial association, consisting in the payment to a member, or his heirs in case of death, of a stipulated sum...
C. C. A
; Railway Co. v. Brown, 44 Kan. 384, 24 Pac. a Railroad Co. v. Plaskett, 47
C. C. A. 444
MOTIVE. The inducement, cause, or reason why a thing is done. An act legal in itself, and which violates no right, is not actionable on account of the motive which actuated it. Chatfield v. Wilson, 5 Am. Law
C. C. A. 460
Damnum sine injurifi esse potest. Lofft, 112. There may be damage or injury. inflicted without any act of injustice.
C. C. A. 639; Louisville & N. R. Co
v. Kentucky, 161 U. 8. 677, 16 Sup. Ct. 714, 40 L.
C. C.) 21 Fed
221: Wilson v. Winchester &
C. C.) 26 Fed
224; Thompson y. Dolliver, 132 Lobban vy. Garnett, 9 Dana (Ky.)
C. C.) 62 Fed
429; Grinder v. Nelson, 9 Gill.
C. GC. A. 497
Any unnecessary or unexcused departure from the usual or general mode of carrying 6n. the voyage insured. 15 Amer. Law Rev. 108.
C. R. Co
(C. C) 21 Fed. 81; Security Co. v. Pratt (C. C.) 64 Fed: 405; Seaboard Air
C.) 106 Fed
551; U. 8S. v. Block, 24 Fed. Cas. 1174.—Common-law assi ents. Such forms of assignments for the benefit of creditors as were known to the common law, as distinguished from such as are of modern invention or authorized...
C.) 111 Fed
918—Patent ambiguity, ee AMBIGUITY.—Patent defect. In sales of personal property, one which is plainly visible or which can be discovered by such an inspection as bbe be made in the exercise of ordiee cy aud rudence....
C.) 125 Fed
331; U. 8. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2228; State v. Armour Packing Co., 124 Iowa, 828, 100 N. W. 60; People v. Arensburg, 105
C.) 148; Teague v. Wilks
3 McCord (8. ©). 461. Properly speaking, however, one is sot
C.) 22 Fed
224; Springer v. Somers Fuel
C.) 28 Fed
56; Rowley v. Van Benthuysen, 16 Wend. (N. Y.) 383; Vance v. Rockwell, 8
C.) 37 Fed
879. 488, 2 L. R. A. 229; People v.
C.) 45 Fed
135, 12 L. R. A. 193; Davis v.
C.) 46 Fed
753. —Lascivious carriage. In Connecticut. A term including those wanton acts between yer sons of different sexes that flow from the exercise of lustful passions, and which are not otherwise punished as crimes against ...
C.) 5 Fed
11. When, by statute, certain acts are “deemed” to be a crime of a particular nature, they are such crime, and not a semblance of it, nor a mere fanciful approximation to or designation of the offense. Com. v. Pratt,...
C.) 52 Fed
629; Sweet v. Rechel, 159 U. S. 380, 16 Sup. Ct. 43, 40 L. Ed. 188.
C.) 55 Fed
316; Westinzhouse v, Boyden Powe
C.) 60 Fed
918.—Miarine carrier. By statutes of several states this term is Spe to carriers plying upon the ocean, arms of the sea, the Great Lakes, and other navigable waters within the jurisdiction of the United States. 819; A...
C.) 638 Fed
C.) 74 Fed
217; McDonald y. White, 130
C.) 77 Fed
563.—Lexz loci delictus. The law of the place where the crime took place.—Lex lood rei sitse. The law of the place where a thing is situated. ‘It is equally settled in the law of all civilized countries that real p...
C.) 78 Fed
661; Fowler v. Lindsey, 3 Dall. 413, 1 L. Ed. 658; Basnet v. Jacksonville, 18 790; Iron Silver Min. Co. v.
C.) 8 Fed
246; U.S. v. Pitman, 27 Fed. Cas. 540.
C.) 82 Fed
766; Lughes v. Railroad Co.
C.) 90 Fed
720.—Pre-emption entry. Ap entry of public lands for purchase under the pre-emption laws, giving the entryman a preferred right to acquire the land by virtue of his occupation and improvement of it. Hartman v. Warren, ...
C.) 98 Fed
497; Vandewater v. The Yankee
C.)-70 Fed
968; Nolan v. Railroad Co., 70
C.).2 Fed
204.—Imchoate dower. A wife's -Pingit in the lands of her husband during his
C.] Fed
600; Metsker v. Bonebrake, 108 U.
C)
ge 641; U. S. v. Rapp (C. C.) 80
Ca
69.—Extraordinary care is synonymous with greatest care, utmost care, highest degree of care. Railroad Co. v. Baddeley, 54 Ill. 24 § Am. Rep. 71; Railway Co. v. Causler, 97
CABLE
Cc. R. An abbreviation for curia regis; also for chancery reports.
CABLISH
or used in submarine telegraphy, (see 25 Stat. 41 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3586].)
CACHEPOLUS, or CACHERELLAS
An inferior bailiff, or catchpoll. Jacob.
CACHET, LETTRES DE
lIetters issued and signed by the kings of France, and countersigned by a secretary of state, authorizing the imprisonment of a persou. Abollished during the revolution of 1789.
CADERE
Lat. To end; cease: fail. As in the phrases cadit actio, (or breve,) the action (or writ) fails; cadtt assisa, the assise abates ; cadit questio, the discussion ends, there is no room for further argument.
CADIT
Lat. It falls, abates, fails, ends, ceases. See CaDERE.
Cai. Oas
(or Oas. Err.). York Cases in Error.
Cain, 19 W. Va
438; Tyler v. Anderson, 106