Cc.) 68 Fed
813; Meydenbauer y. Stevens (D.
Terms beginning with "C" (875 total)
Ce IV
c. 46; 37 & 38 Vict. c 87.) Sweet.
CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE
The formal act by which a man and woman take each other for husband and wife, according to law; the solemnization of a marriage. The term is usually applied to a marriage ceremony attended with ecclesiastical functions. ...
CENSERE
CENSERE. In the Roman law. To ordain; to decree. Dig. 50, 16, 111.
CENSUMETHIDUS, or CENSU
MORTHIDUS. A dead rent, like that which is called “mortmain.” Blount; Cowell.
Cent
128 Arbitrators are judges. 205; Broom, Max. 50. 205. Indictment for felony is against the peace of our lord the king, his crown and dignity in general, and nat against his individual person; because in England there i...
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. An
English court, having jurisdiction for the trial of crimes and misdemeanors committed in London and certain adjoining parts of Kent, Essex, and Sussex, and of such other criminal cases as may be sent to it out of the kin...
CENTRAL OFFICE
with statistics of wealth, commerce, education, etc. Huntington v. Cast, 149 Ind. 255, 48 N. E. 1025; Republic v. Paris, 10 Hawail, 581.
Central, etc., Tel. Co., 145 Pa
121, 22 Atl. 841, 27 Am. St. Rep. 677.—Patent-right dcoaler, Any one whose business it is to sell, or offer for sale, patent-rights. 14 St. at Large, 118.—Pateent rolls. he official records of royal charters and gran...
CEPI
Lat. I have taken. This word was of frequent use in the returns of sheriffs when they were made in Latin, and particularly in the return to a writ of capias.
CERA IMPRESSA
Lat. An impressed seal. It does not necessarily refer to an impression on wax, but may include an impression made on wafers or other adhesive substances capable of receiving an impression, or even paper. Pierce v. Indset...
CERTA DEBET ESSE INTENTIO
forms: Ceps corpus, I have taken the body, i. e., arrested the body of the defendant; Cept corpus et bail, I have taken the body and released the defendant on a bail-bond; Cepé corpus et committstur, I have taken the bo...
CERTIFICANDO DE RECOGNITIONE
STAPULZ. In English law. A writ commanding the mayor of the staple to certify to the lord chancellor a statute-staple taken before him where the party himself detains it, and refuses to bring in the same. There
CERTIFICATE
is a like writ to certify a statute-merchant, and in divers other cases. Reg. Orig. 148, 151, 152. erty. Christie v. Duluth, 82 Minn. 202, 84 N. W. 754.—Certificate of purchase. A certif-
CERTIFICATION OF ASSISE. In
English practice. A writ anciently granted for the re-examining or retrial of a matter passed by assise before justices, now entirely superseded by the remedy afforded by means of a new trial.
CERTIFICATS DE COUTUME. In
French law. Certificates given by a foreign lawyer, establishing the law of the country to which he belongs upon one or more fixed points. These certificates can be produced before the French courts, and are received as ...
CERTIORARI
Lat. (To be informed of, to be made certain in regard to.) The name of a writ issued by a superior court directing an inferior court to send up to the former some pending proceeding, or all the record and proceedings in ...
CESS
CESS, n. An assessment or tax. In Ireland, it was anciently applied to an exaction of victuals, at a certain rate, for soldiers in garrison.
CESSE
(1) An assessment or tax; (2) a tenant of land was said to cesse when he neglected or ceased to perform the services due to the lord. Co. Litt. 3738a, 380d.
CESSET EXECUTIO
(Let execution stay.) In practice. A stay of execution; or an order for such stay; the entry of such stay on record. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1104.
CESSET PROCESSUS
(Let process stay.) A stay of proceedings entered on the record
CESSIO
Lat. A cession; a giving up, or relinquishment; a surrender; an aéssignment.
CESSION OF GOODS
CESSION OF GOODS. The surrender of property; the relinquishment that a debtor makes of all his property to his creditors, when he finds himself unable to pay his debts. Civil Code Im. art. 2170.
CG
243, 43 S. E. 649; Hiett v. Shull, 36 W. 491. Leen
CG, TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS
©. Cowen’s Reports, New York ;—Connecticut;— California;— Colorado;— Canada (Province).
Ch
(N. Y.) 438, 446.—Collateral assurance. That which is made over and above the principal assurance or deed itself.—Collateral at~- tack. See “Collateral impeachment,” infra. Collateral facts. Such as are outside t...
Ch. Cham
(or Ch. Ch.). hencery Chamber Reports, Ontario. -
Ch. Col. Op
poe ‘Colonial Opinions.
Ch. Div
798; Sweet. 411; L. R. 14 Eq. 4; 7 Ch. Div. 825. ~—Salvage charges. This term includes all the expenses and costs incurred in the work of saving and presery ne the property which was in sanger, he salvage charges ulti...
Ch. Pr
1070.—Special allowances. In English practice. In taxing the costs of an action as between party and party, the taxing officer is, in certain cases, empowered to make special allowances; 4. e.. to allow the party costs...
Ch. Pr. By Consolid. Ord
1860, viii, r. 4, claims were abolished. Wharton.—Claim of conusance. In practice. An intervention by a third person in a suit, claiming that he has rightful jurisdiction of the cause which the plaintiff has commenced ...
Ch.) 84 Atl
140; Home Sav. Bank v. Bierstadt, 168 Ill. 618, 48 N. EB. 161, 61 Am. St.
CHACEABLE
L. Fr. chased or hunted.
CHACER. IL
Fr. To drive, compel, or oblige; also to chase or hunt. A
CHACURUS
L. Lat. A horse for the chase, or a hound, dog, or courser.
Chaffe v. Ludeling, 27 La. Ann
607. —Foreign wessel. A vessel owned by residents in, or sailing under the flag of, a foreign nation. ‘Foreign vessel,” under the embargo act of January, 1808, means a vessel under the flag of a foreign power, and ...
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES OF
THE WHOLE HOUSE. In English parliamentary practice. In the commons, this officer, always a member, is elected by. the house on the assembling of every new parliament. When the house is in committee on bills introduced by...
CHALDRON, CHALDERN, or CHAL
DER. Twelve sacks of coals, each holding three bushels, weighing about a ton and a half. In Wales they reckon 12 barrels or
Chalices, crosses, censers. Bract
fol. 8—Res sanctse. In the civil law. Holy things; such
Challis, 200 Ill
222, 65 N. E. 665; Barteau v. West, 28 Wis. 416; Wood v. Hurd, 34 N. J. Law, 87.
Chalm. Bills & N. art
271. As to promissory “Oath,” “Representa:
CHAMBER BUSINESS
same as a challenge to the array. See supra.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. An as
sociation (which may or may not be incorporated) comprising the principal merchants, manufacturers, and traders of a city, designed for convenience in buying, selling, and exchanging goods, and to foster the commercial a...
CHAMBER SURVEYS
CHAMBER SURVEYS. At an early day in Pennsylvania, surveyors often made drafts on paper of pretended surveys of public lands, and returned them to the land office as duly surveyed, instead of going on the ground and estab...
CHAMBERDEKINS, or CHAMBER
DEACONS. In old English law. Certain poor Irish scholars, clothed in mean habit, and living under no rule; also beggars banished from Emgiand. (1 Hen. V. ce 7% 8) Wharton.
CHAMP DE MAI
(Lat. Campus Maiti.) The field or assembly of May. The national
CHAMP DE MARS
(Lat. Campus Martii.) The field or assembly of March. The national assembly of the Franks, held in the month of March, in the open air.
Champagne, Fed. Cas
1168.—Current value. The current value of imported commodities is their common market price at the place of exportation. without reference to the price actually paid by the importer, Tappan
CHAMPERTY
assembly of the Franks, held in the month: of May.
CHAMPION
intermeddles officiously. Thus every champerty includes maintenance, but not every maintenance is champerty. See 2 Inst. 208;