Carpenter, 31 App. Div
603, 52 N. Y. Supp. 781. As applied to the financial management of corporations (and sometimes of estates in course of administration or properties under receivership) funding means the borrowing of a sufficient sum of m...
Terms beginning with "C" (875 total)
Carpenter, 87 Me
114, 32 Atl. T80.—Open verdict. A verdict of a coroner's jury which finde that the subject “came to his death by means to the jury unknown.” or “came to his death at the hands of a person or persons to the jury u...
Carr, 53 Vt
46; State v. Dowden, 118 N. C. 1145, 24 S. E. 722; Savage v. State, 18
Carr, 60 N. J. Eq
300, 47 Atl. 34. As distéguished from a gift in trust, it is one where not only the legal title but the beneficial ownership as well is vested in the donee. Watkins y. Bigelow, 98 Minn. 210, 100 N. W. 1104.— Gift ente...
CARRIAGE
CARIAGIUM. In old English law. Car- Fiage; the carrying of goods or other things for the king.
Carriage Co
v. Solanes (C. C.) 108 Fed. 532:
Carroll, 85 Pa
511; Jermyn v. McClure, 195
CARTEL
v. State, 13 Neb. 308, 14 N. W. 408.—Carry arms or weapons. To wear, bear, or carry them upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose of use, or for the purpose of being armed and ready for offens...
Carter, 9 Daly (N. ¥.) 193; Moody v
Laths (D. C.) 2 Fed. 607; Sleeper v. Puig, 22 Fed.
Cas
286. 288; The G. R. Booth, 171 U. 8. 450, 19 Sup. Ct. 9, 48 L. Ed. 234; The Carlotta, 5 Fed. Cas. 76; Bazin v. Steamship Co., 2 511; Carnegie Steel Co. v. Cambria 829; Jones v. Com., 80 Va. 542; Heirn vy. Bridault, 37...
CAS FORTUIT
Fr. In the law of insurance. <A fortuitous event; an inevitable accident.
Cas. No
188; United States v. Sixteen Packages, 2 Mason, 48, Fed. Cas. No. 16.303; Pies : ray Mass.) 226.—Actual sale. Lands are “actually sold” at a tax sale, so as to entitle the treasurer to the statutory fees. when the...
Cas.t. Lee
(Phillimore’s) Cases tempore Lee, English Ecclesiastical.
CASE
1. A general term for an action, Cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; a question contested before a court of justice; an aggregate of facts which furnisher occasion for the exercise of the jurisdiction of a ...
CASE LAW
clent forms of action will not lie. Steph. PL 15. An abbreviated form of the title “trespass on the case,” g. v. Munal v. Brown (C.
Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 386, 17 Am. Dec
311; Supreme Lodge v. Lapp, 74 S. W. 656, 25 Ky. 311: See INSANITY. ~-Inguisition (or inquest) of lunacy. A quasi-judicial examination into the sanity or in- Sanity of a given person, ordered by a court having jurisdict...
Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 388, 17 Am. Dec
311; Merritt v. State, 39 Tex. Cr. R. 70, 45 S. W. 21; In re Gannon’s Will, 2 Misc. Rep. 329, 21 N. Y. Supp. 960.—Paranoia. Monomania in general, or the obsession of a delusion or system of delusions which dominate w...
Case, 18 Wend
(N. Y.) 544; Ryan v. Tudor, 31 Kan. 366, 2 Pac. 797: Purdy v. Independence, 75 Iowa, 356, 39 N. W. 641; McInerny v. Reed, 23 Iowa, 414; Taylor v. Kearney
Cases, 2 Black
666, 17 L. Ed. 459: People v.
Cases, 2 Black, 667
17 L. Ed. 459; Central
Cases, 2 Black, 685, 17 L. Ed
459; Swaim v. U. 8S., 28 Ct. Cl. 178.
Casey, 26 Pa
287, 318; Railroad Commission v. Houston, etec., R. Co., 90 Tex. 340, 38 8. ‘W. 750; People v. Atlantic Ave. R. Co., 125 N.
Casey. Casey's Reports, vols
25-36 Pennsylvania State. °
Casler, 50 How. Prac
(N. Y.) 44; Meade vy.
Cass. Sup
0. Prac. © Cassel’s Supreme Court Practice, 2d édition by Masters. .
CASSATION, COURT OF
(Fr. cour de cassation.) The highest court in France; so termed from possessing the power to quash (casser) the decrees of inferior courts. It is a court of appeal in criminal as well as civil
CASSETUR
(That the bill be quashed.) In practice. The form of the judgment rendered for a defendant on a plea in abatement, where the proceeding is by dill; that is, where the suit is commenced by capias, and not by. original wri...
CASSETUR BILLA
(Lat. That the bill be quashed.) In practice. The form of the judgment for the defendant on a plea in abatement, where the action was commenced by bill, (déila.) 8 Bl. Comm. 303; Steph. PI. 128, 131. The form of an entr...
CASSETUR BREVE
(lat. That the writ be quashed.) In practice. The form of the judgment for the defendant on a plea in abatement, where the action was commenced by original writ, (dreve.) 38 Bl. Comm. 808;
Cassin, 45 Cal
481, 18 Am. Rep. 204.
CAST, p
p. Overthrown, worsted, or defeated in an action.
CASTELLARIUM
from the sovereign authority, by which a decree or judgment in the court of last resort is broken or annulled. Merl. Repert.
CASTELLARIUM, CASTELLATUS
In old English law. The precinct or jurisdiction of a castle. Blount.
CASTELLORUM OPERATIO. In Sax
on and old English law. Castle work. Service and labor done by inferior tenants for the building and upholding castles and public places of defense. One of the three -necessary charges, (trinoda necessitas,) to which all...
CASTRUM
Lat. In Roman law. A camp. In old English law. A castle. Bract.
Casualty Co., 99 Wis
530, 75 N. W. 67; In re Emslie (D. C.) 98 Fed. 720; Id., 102 Fed. 298, 42 ©. C. A. 350; Mack v. Campau, 60 ¥t. 558, 38 Atl. 149, 69 Am. St. Rep. 948. aid. Qrtagrss proceeding. This phrase has been used in the New York ...
CASUS
Lat. Chance; accident; an event; a case; a case contemplated. wreck, etc. Dig. 44, 7, 1, 4—Oasus omissus. A case omitted; an event or contingency for which no provision is made; particularly a case not provided for by...
CATALLIS CAPTIS NOMINE DISs
TRICTIONIS. An obsolete writ that lay where a house was within a borough, for rent issuing out of the same, and which warranted the taking of doors, windows, etc., by way of distress.
CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION ‘AOT
CATALS. Goods and chattels. See Ca-
CATONIANA REGULA
CATONIANA REGULA. In Roman law. The rule which is commonly expressed in the maxim, Quod ab initio non valet tractu temporis non convalebit, meaning that what is at the beginning void by reason of some technica) (or other...
CAUSA
Lat. 1. A cause, reason, occasion, motive, or inducement.
CAUSA CAUSANTIS
or mode of acquiring property ; hence a title: Thus, “TVitulus est justa causa possidendt id quod nostrum est,” title is the lawful ground of possessing that which is ours. 8 Coke, 153. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, §$§ 2...
CAUSA EOCCLESIZ
of the effect. 4 Camp. 284; Marble v. City of Worcester, 4 Gray (Mass.) 398.
CAUSAM NOBIS SIGNIFIOES
QUARE. A writ addressed to a mayor of a town, etc., who was by the king’s writ commanded to give seisin of lands to the king’s grantee, on his delaying to do it, requiring him to show cause why he so delayed the perf...
CAUSES CELEBRES
In practice. A suit, litigation, or action. Any question, civil or criminal, contested before a court of justice.
CAUSIDICUS
often called a “cause célébre,” when it is remarkable on account of the parties involved or the unusual, interesting, or sensational character of the facts.
CAVEAT
Lat. Let him beware. A formal notice or warning given by a party interested to a court, judge, or ministerial officer against the performance of certain acts within his power and jurisdiction. This process may be used in...
CAVEATOR
defects in the way. Cornwell v. Com’rs, 10
CAVERE
Lat. In the civil and common law. To take care; to exercise caution; to take care or provide for; to provide by law; to provide against; to forbid by law; ‘to give security; to give caution or security on arrest.
Cc. C.) 65 Fed
317.—Commissioners of deeds. Officers empowered by the government of one state to reside in another state, and there take acknowledgments of deeds and other papers which are to be used as evidence or put on record in t...