Cree, 46 Vt
783, 14 Am. ae 640; Buffalo City Cemetery v. Buffalo, 46 N. Y. 500.—Speciflo tax. tax imposed as a fixed sum on each article or item of property of a given class or kind, without regard to its value; opposed to ad valo...
Terms beginning with "C" (875 total)
Creek Ditch Co
v. Henry, 15 Mont. 558, 39
Cresap, 54 W. Va
581. 46 S. BE. 582; U. S&. v. Dietrich (C. C.) 126 Fed. 660.
CRETIO
Lat. In the civil law. A certain number of days allowed an heir to deliberate whether he would take the inheritance or not. Calvin.
CRIER
sometimes by treaties. Rev. St. U. 8. §§ 4374, 4375 (U. 8S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2086). It is necessary for the protection of the crews of every vessel, in the course of the voyage, during a war abroad. Jac. Sea Laws, 66...
Crilley, 20 Barb
(N. Y.) 248. See Intoxyca- TING L1quor; Spirrrvovus Liquor.
Crim, Pl
51, 58; Leach, 556. ©
Crim. Pr
84.—Lord and vassal. In the feudal system, the grantor, who retained the dominion or ultimate property, was called
CRIME
CRIMEN
Lat. Crime. Also an accusation or charge of crime. l —Crimen furti. The crime or offense of theft—Orimen incendii. The crime of burning, which included not only the modern crime of arson, but also the burning of a ma...
CRIMINAL
ministration of justice. MatzenlLaugh. .v.. Code Cal. § 683. A criminal action is (1) an action prosecuted by the state as a party, against a person charged with a public offense, for the punishment thereof; (2) an act...
CRIMINALITER
Lat. Criminally. This term is used, in distinction or opposition to the word “civiliter,” civilly, to distinguish a criminal liability or prosecution from a civil one.
Critchlow, 112 Mass
343. 17 Am. Rep. 176.— passage. In parliamentary law. The final passage of a bill is the vote on its passage in either house of the legislature, after it has received the prescribed number of readings on as many differ...
Crittenden, 2 Fed. Cas
981; Pitts y. Hall, 19
Cro, Jac
166; Yel. : 1 Steph. Comm. 265; 4.
Cro. Car
530. 64. In a trial, credence is given only to those who are sworn. 516. Literally, lesser age.—Minor fact. In the law of evidence. A relative, collateral, or subordinate fact; a circumstance. 555.
Crocker v. Manley, 164 Ill
282, 45 N. E 577, 56 Am. St. Rep. 196.
Cromelian v. Brink, 29 Pa. St
522.—After-~ diseovered. Discovered or made known after a particular date or event.—After sight. This term as used in a bill payable so many days after sight, means after legal sight: that is, after legal presentment...
Cromp. Jur
217. It was formerly necessary to have some of these upon every panel of jurors. 38 Bl Comm.’ 859, 360; 4 Steph.
Crook v. Webb, 125 Ala
457, 28 South. 384; Cotheal v. Cotheal, 40 N. Y. 410; Lantznester v. State, 19 Tex. App. 321; Thornburg v.
CROSS
CROSS. <A mark made by persons whio are unable to write, to stand instead of a signature; usually made in the form of a Maltese cross.
Cross v. Armstrong, 44 Ohio St
613, 10 N. B. 160; Cunningham vy. Shanklin, 60 Cal. 125; Hill v. Henry, 66 N. J. Eq. 150, 57 Atl. 555.
Cross, 83 Tex
218, 18 8S. W. 578,15 LL R. A. 262.
Crossley, 69 Ind
200; Lewis's Appeal, 108
CROWNER
oner; a coroner. oner’s inquest.
CRUELTY
“plea side.” 4 Bl. Comm. 265.~Orown solicitor. In England, the solicitor to the treasury acts, in state prosecutions, as solicitor for the crown in preparing the prosecution. In Ired there are officers called “crow...
Cruise, Dig
tit. 2, c« 1, § 12. See Tam; Fre-TalI. tit. 24, § 1.
CRYPTA
ground, or under a church or cathedral. Cange.
Ct
413, 28 L. Ed. 401; Kelly v. Ben. Ass'n, 99, 87 lL. Ed. 1083. 490, 85 L. Bd. 97; ‘Ennis v. Bldg. Ass’n, 102 Towa, 520, 71 N. W. 426; Anthony v. 854, 84 L. Ed. 222; Hollander v. Baiz (D. 806, 36 L. Ed. 672; Steamb...
Ct, 827, 27 L. Ed
1006. att. ; ; é REVENUE. As applied to the income of'a government, this is a broad and general term, including all public moneys which the state collects and receives, from whatever source and in whatevér manner. U. S...
Ct. Cl
489; Com. vy. Shortall, 206 Pa. 165, 55 Atl. 952, 65 L. R. A. 193, 98 Am. St. 208—Principal office. The principal
Ct. R. 503: People v. Adams, 95 Mich
541, 55 N. W. 461; Bugbee v. Boyce, 68 Vt. 311, 35 Atl. 330..
Ct. Rules 1883, ord
40.—Motion in error. A motion in error stands on the same footing as a writ of error; the only difference .is that, on a motion in error, no service is required to be made on the opposite party, because, being before t...
CU8TOS
where the duties, bounties, or drawbacks. payable or receivable upon such importation or exportation are paid or received; and where ships are cleared out, etc.
Cue, 87 App. Div
72, 88 N. Y. Supp. 1088.
CUI ANTE DIVORTIUM
(To whom before divorce.) A writ for a woman divorced from her husband to recover her lands and tenements which she had in feesimple or in tail, or for life, from him to whom her husband alienated them during the marriag...
CUI IN VITA
(To whom in life) A writ of entry for a widow against him to whom her husband aliened her lands or tenements in his life-time; which must: contain in it that during his life she could not withstand it. Reg. Orig. 232; Fi...
CUILIBET IN ARTE SUA PERJTO
Saxon language is said to signify the scolding-stool, though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking-stool, because the judgment was that, when the woman was placed therein, she should be plunged in the water It was ...
Cujus
est dominium ejus est pericu- ‘lam. The risk lies upon the owner of the subject. Tray. Lat. Max. 114. .
CUL DE SAC
(Fr. the bottom of a sack.) A blind alley; a street which is open at one end only. Bartlett v. Bangor, 67 Me. 407; Perrin v. Railroad Co., 40 Barb. (N. Y¥.) 65; Talbott v. Railroad Co., 31 Grat.
Cullough, 1 N. Y. 47, 49 Am. Dec
287; State v. Dougherty, 4 Or. 203.
Culmer, 78 Fed
501, 24 Cc. C. A. 182; Auten vy. Bennett, 88 App. Div. 15, 84 N. Y. Supp. 689. In French law, freighting and affreighting are distinguished. The owner of a ship freights it. (le frete;) he is called the freighter, (fretc...
CULPA
Lat. A term of the civil law, meaning fault, neglect, or negligence. There are three degrees of culpa,—lata culpa, gross
CULPABILIS
Lat. In old English law.
CULPABLE
Cufus per errorem dati repetitio est, ejus consulto dati donatio est. He ‘who gives a thing by mistuke has a right to re-
CULPRIT
CULPABLE. Blamable; censurable; involving the breach of a legal duty or the commission of a fault. The term is not nec-
Culsky v. Klosterman, 20 Or
108, 25 Pace. 366, 10 L. R. A. 785.
CUM COPULA
Lat. With copulation, 4. é., 8exual intercourse. Used in speaking of the validity of a marriage contracted “per verba
CUM PAR, DBLICTUM
mounces the partnership, the peruiersmp is dissolved. Tray. Lat. Max. 118.
CUM TESTAMENTO ANNEXO. UL
Lat. With the will annexed. A term applied to administration granted where a testator makes an incomplete will, without naming any executors, or where he names incapable persons, or where the executors named refuse to ac...