COURT OF THE CORONER. In Eng
A court of record, to inquire, when any one dies in prison, or comes to a violent or sudden death, by what manner he came to his end. 4 Steph. Comm. 323; 4 Bl. Comm. 274. See CORONER.
Terms beginning with "C" (875 total)
COURT OF THE DUCHY OF LANCAS
TER. <A court of special jurisdiction, held before the chancellor of the duchy or ‘his deputy, concerning all matters of equity relating to lands holden of the king in right of the duchy of Lancaster. 3 BL Comm. 78,
COURT OF THE LORD HIGH STEW
ARD. In English law. A court instituted for the trial, during the recess of parliament, of peers indicted for treason or felony, or for misprision of either. This court is not a.permanent body, but is created in modern t...
COURT OF THE OLERK OF THE
MARKET. An English court of inferior jurisdiction held in every fair or market for the punishment of misdemeanors committed therein, and the recognizance of weights and measures.
COURT OF THE STEWARD
to determine civil rights and a court of revenue to enrich the treasury. It was finally abolished by St. 16 Car. I. c. 10, to the general satisfaction of the whole nation. Brown.
COURT OF THE STEWARD AND
MARSHAL. A high court, formerly held in England by the steward and marshal of the king's household, having jurisdiction of all actions agninst the king’s peace within the bouxgds of the household for twelve miles, whic...
COURT OF THE STEWARD OF THE
KING’S HOUSEHOLD. In English law. A court which had jurisdiction of all cases of treason, misprision of treason, murder, manslaughter, bloodshed, and other malicious strikings whereby blood is shed, occurring in or wit...
COURT OF WARDS AND LIVERIES
A court of record, established in England in the reign of Henry VIII. For the survey and management of the valuable fruits of tenure, a court of record was created by St. 32 Hen. VIII. c 46, called the “Court of the Ki...
Court Reports;—Black’s Reports, vols
30—- 53 Indiana ;—H. Blackstone’s English Common Pleas Reports;—W. Blackstone’s English King’s Bench Reports;—Blackford’s Indiana Reports.
COURT-HAND
ed of such of the judges of the superior courts of Westminster as were able to attend, for the consideration of questions of law reserved by any judge in a court of oyer and terminer, gaol delivery, or quarter sessions, ...
Court, 115 Cal
152, 46 Pac. 904; People v.
Court, 22 Mont
25, 55 Pac. 916; People v.
Court, 44 Mo
197; People v. Collins, 19
Court, 90 Mo
598, 2 S. W. 788; Minor v.
COURTS OF ASSIZE AND NISI
PRIUS. Courts in England composed of two or more commissioners, called “judges of assize,” (or of “assize and nist prius,”) who are twice in every year sent by the king’s special commission, on circuits all rou...
COURTS OF CINQUE PORTS. In Eng
lish law. Courts of limited local jurisdiction formerly held before the mayor and jurats (aldermen) of the Cingue Ports.
COURTS OF PRINOIPALITY OF
WALES. A species of private courts of a limited though extensive jurisdiction, which,
COURTS OF THE COUNTIES PALA
TINE. In English law. A species of private court which formerly appertained to the counties palatine of Lancaster and Durham.
COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES
comprise the following: The senate of the United States, sitting as a court of impeachment; the supreme court; the circuit courts; the circuit courts of appeals; the district courts; the supreme court and court of appeal...
COURTS OF THE UNIVERSITIES of
Oxford and Cambridge have jurisdiction in all personal actions to which any member or servant of the respective university is a party, provided that the cause of action arose within the liberties of the university, and t...
COURTS OF WESTMINSTER HALL
The superior courts, both of law and equity, were for centuries fixed at Westminster, an ancient palace of the monarchs of Englund. Fornierly, all the superior courts were held before the king’s capital justiciary of E...
COUSTOUMIER
(Otherwise spelled “Coustumier” or “Coutumier.”) In old French law. A _ collection: of customs, unwritten laws, and forms of procedure. Two such yolumes are of especial importance in juridical history, viz., the ...
COVENANT
ing and delivery thereof, whereby some of the parties named therein engage, or one of thein engages, with the other, or others, or some of them, therein also named, that some act hath or hath not already been done, or fo...
Covenant Mut
L. Ins. Co., 50 Mo. 47.
Cow
(N. Y.). 525, note-—Corporal touch. Bodily touch; actual physical contact; manual apprehension. (N. Y.) 190.
Cowell; Bract
fol. 155.—Assisa proroganda. An obsolete writ, which was directed to the judges assigned to take assises, to auy proceedings, by reason of a party to them being employed in the king’s business. Reg. Orig. 208. —Ass...
Cowley v. People, 88 N. Y. 464
38 Am. Rep. 464; Stearns v. Field, 90 N. Y. 641.
Cowp
600; 4 Kent, Comm. 493; Shep. Touch. 87.
Cox v. Royal Tribe, 42 Or
365, 71 Pac. 73, 60 L. R. A. 620, 98 Am. St. Rep. 752.—Coroner’s ihquest. An inquisition or examination into the causes and circumstances of any death happening by violence or under suspicious conditions within his t...
Cox, Inst
1386; May, Parl. Pr. 185.—Standing seised to uses. <A covenant to stand seised to uses is one by which the owner of an estate covenants to hold the same to the use of another person, usually a relative, and usually in ...
Coy, 2 Marv
(Del.) 465, 36 Atl. 359.
Cr. R. (N. ¥.) 214; Comm
v. Pennock, 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.} 199; Armour y. State, 3
Cr. R. 199
42 S. W. 291, 38 L. R. A. 719;
Crabb, Real Prop
p. 125, § 115. Distinguished from an easement. 5 Adol. & E. 758. Sometimes written as one word, apprendre, apprender. pp. 38, 30, §§ 088, 989; 4 p. 258, § 268. p. 615, § 778. Called also “grassum,” and “gro...
Cracken, 11 Phila
(Pa.) 534; Frazer v. Frazer, 2 Del. Ch. 260.
Cracken, 61 Fed
194, 9 CG C. A. 442.
CRAFT
nial of the allegations of the declaration; and the further addition of “with leave,” etc., imports an equitable defense, arising out of special circumstances, which the defendant means to offer in evidence. Zents v....
Cragin, 136 U. 8S
180, 10 Sup. Ct. 1024, 34
Cramrine. Crumrine’s Reports, vols
116— 146 Pennsylvania.
Crane v. Bank, 178 Pa
566, 84 Atl. 206; National Exch. Bank v. National Bank of North
Crane, 5 Pet
193, 8 L. Ed. 92; Galvin v. State, 56 Ind. 56: Coxe v. Field, 13 N. J. Law, 218; 192, 8 L. Ed. 92.
CRASTINO
Lat. On the morrow, the day after. The returnrday of w rits ; because the first day of the term was always some saint’s dny, and: writs were returnable on the day after. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 56.
Crawford v. Rambo, 44 Ohio St
279, 7 N. B 429; New York, etc., R. Co. v. Hamlet Hay
Crawford, 130 U. 8S
122, 9 Sup. Ct. 447, 32
Cray v. Clar, 82 Pa
457; Brinkman v. Jones, 44 Wis. 498; White v. Fisher, 77 Ind. 65, 40
Cream City R. Co
v. Chicago, etc., R. Co., 63
CREAMUS
Lat. We create. One of the words by which:a corporation in England
CREDIT
1. The ability of a business wun.to borrow muney, or obtain goods ou time, !n ednsequence of the favorable opinion held by the community, or by the particular lender, as to his solvency and reliability. People v: Wasser...
CREDITOR |
of “mutual debts.” Atk. 230; Atkinson yv.
Creditors, 17 La
206; Barkley-v. His Creditors, 11 Rob. (La.) 22—Law eourt of apeals. In American law. An appellate triunal. ommcry existing in the state of South Carolina, for hearing appeals from the courts of law.—Law day. See Day...