Chance, 174 Mass
245, 54 N. E. 551, 75 Am.
Terms beginning with "C" (875 total)
CHANCELLOR’S COURTS IN THE
TWO UNIVERSITIES. In English law. Courts of local jurisdiction in and for the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England.
CHANCERY
or four chief dignitaries of the cathedrals of the old foundation. The duties assigned to the office by the statutes of the different chapters vary, but they are chiefly of an educational character, with a special refere...
Chancery Reports, vol
6 Maddock’s Reports. 6 Maddock’s Reports.
Chancery Reports, vols
2-4 New Jersey Equity.
Chand. Or. Tr
(or Chand. Crim. Tr.). Chandler’s American Criminal Trials.
Chandler, 199 Ill
97, 64 N. E. 1052; Kirk v. 97, G4 N. E. 1052; Welch v. Maine Cent. R. Co., 86 Me. 552, 30 Atl. 116, 25 L. R. A. 638.
Chandler’s Reports, vols
20, 38-44 New Hampshire.
CHANGE
i. An alteration; substitution of one thing for another. This word does not connote either improvement or deterioration as a result. In this respect it differs from amendment, which, in law, always imports a change for t...
Chapman v. Mfg. Co., 77 Me
210; In re Adler (D. O.) 108 Fed. 444.
Chapman, 40 Conn
382, 397, 16 Am. Rep. 46.
CHARACTER
Those belonging to private persons who have purchased or erected them with a view to profit or otherwise —Public chapels. In English law, are chapels founded at some period later than the church itself. They were desig...
CHARGE DES AFFAIRES
In the law of wills. A responsibility or liability imposed by the testator upon a devisee personally, or upon the land devised.
CHARGE DES AFFAIRES, or
CHARGE D’AFFAIRES. The title of A diplomatic representative of inferior rank. He has not the title or dignity of a minister, though he may be charged with the functions and offices of the latter, either as a temporary ...
Charles II
formed by Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauderdale, who concerted a scheme for the restoration of popery. The initials of these five names form the word “cabal;” hence the appellation.
Charles, 41 Minn
201, 42 N. W. 935.—Competent evidence. That which the very nature of the thing to be proven requires, as the production of a writing where its contents are the subject of inquiry. 1 Green]. Ev. § 2; Chapman v. McAdams...
Charleston, v. Reller, 45 W. Va
44, 30 S. E. 152; State v. Burten, 113 N. C. 655, 18 S& E. 657.
CHARRE OF LEAD
¥. Supp. 805; Kentucky Female Orphan School v. Louisville, 100 Ky. 470, 86 S. W. 921, 40
Charta, (c
14,) which lay for one who was excessively amerced in a court not of record. directed to the lord of the court, or his bail-
CHARTE
Fr. A chart, or plan, which mariners use at sea.
CHARTIS REDDENDIS
(For returning the charters.) An ancient writ which lay against one who had charters of feoffment intrusted to his keeping and refused to de liver them. Reg. Orig. 159.
Chase, 15 N. H. 9, Am. Dec
675; epee ton v. Schmidt, 26 Cal. 404, 95 Am. Dec. 187 —Inferential facts. Such as are established not directly by testimony or other evidence, but by inferences or conclusions drawn from the evidence. Railway Co. vy. ...
CHASE.—Frank-fee
Freehold lands exempted from all services, but not from homage: lands held otherwise than in ancient demesne. That which a man holds to himself and his heirs, and not by such service as is required in ancient demesne, ac...
Cheboygan Lumber Co
v. Delta Transp. Co., 100 Mich. 16, 58 N. W. 630.—Imternal revemue. In the legislation and fiscal administration of the United States, revenue raised by the imposition of taxes and excises on domestic products or manuf...
CHECK
CHAUNTRY RENTS. Money paid to the crown by the servants or purchasers of chauntry-lands. See CHANTRY. much money in the hands of the bankers to the holder of the check. to remain there until called for, and cannot after...
CHECKER
The old Scotch form of exchequer. _
Chemical Nat. Bank, 84 Fed
874, 28 C. C. A. 548.—Act of law. The operation of fixed legal rules upon given facts or occurrences, producin
Cherokee Bob, 45 Cal
504; Gitten v. Lowry, 15 Ga. 336.
Cheshire County Tel. Co
v. State, 63 N. H. 167; Detroit Common Council v. Detroit Assessors, 91 Mich. 78, 51 N. W. 787, 16 L. R. A. 59.—Double use. In patent law. An application of a principle or process, previously known and applied, to some...
Chicago v. Collins, 175 Ill
445, 51 N. E. 907, 49 L. BR. A. 408, 67 L. R. A. 224. Also the written evidence of such permission.
Chicago, etc., R. Co., 80 Mo. App
157.—Physical necessity. A condition in which a person is absolutely compels to act in a particular way by overwhelming superior force; as distinguished from moral necessity, which arises where there is a duty incumben...
CHILD
CHICANE. Swindling; shrewd cunning. The use of tricks and artifice. opposite of “adult,” and means the young of the human species, (generally under the age of puberty,) without any reference to parentage and without...
Chillicothe v. Dodge, 8 Barb
(N. Y.) $33. Foreign laws are often the suggesting occasions of changes in, or additions to. our own laws, and in that respect are called ‘jus receptue.” Brown.—General law. A general law as copntradistinguished fr...
CHIMNEY MONEY, or HEARTH MON
EY. A tax upon chimneys or hearths; an ancient tax or duty upon houses in England, now repealed. aH
Chirac v. Reinicker, 11 Wheat
280, 6 L. Ed. 474: Parkhurst y. Berdell, 110 N. Y. 386, 18
CHIRGEMOT, CHIRCHGEMOT. In
Saxon law. An ecclesiastical assembly or court. Spelman. A synod or meeting in a church or vestry. 4 Inst. 321.
CHIROGRAPH -°
CHILDWIT. In Saxon law. The right which a lord had of taking a fine of his bondwoman gotten with child without his license. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.
Chit. Gen. Pr
597: Goodyear v. Sawyer (C. ©.) 17 Fed. 6—Treble costs. A rate of costs given in~certain actions, consisting, according to its technical import, of the common costs, half of these, and half of the latter. 2 Tidd, Pr. ...
Chit. Pr
99. 729, 730. A vexatious or false defense, resorted to under the old system of pleadlay and annoyaace. Steph. PI. Mr. Chitty defines sham pleas to Be pleas so palpably and manifestly untrue that the court will assume t...
Chollette,.33 Neb
1 49 N. W. 1114—Onlable megligence. Failure to exercise that egree of care rendered appropriate by the particular circumstances, and which a man of) or-
CHOSE
Fr. A thing; an article of property. A chose is a chattel personal, (Wil-
CHOSE IN ACTION
person to whom the debt is due. When it is said that a chose in action cannot be assigned, it means that a thing to which a right of action is annexed cannot be transferred to another, together with such right. Brown.
CHOSE IN AOTION
families. It is now grown entirely out of use, on account of the feebleness of its jurisdiction and want of power to enforce its judgments, as it could neither fine nor imprison, not being a court of record. 3 Bl.
Christhilf, 69 Md
219, 14 Atl. 521; Mayer v.
Christian v. Mills, 2 Walk
(Pa.) 131.—Trespass quare clausum fregit. “Trespass wherefore he broke the close.” The commonlaw action for damages for an unlawful entry or trespass upon the plaintiff's land. In the Latin form of the writ, the de...
Christie v. Davis Coal Co
(D. C.) 95 Fed. 838;
Christmas v. Russell, 5 Wall
303, 18 L. Ed. 475; Shaw v. Chase, 77 Mich. 436, 43 N. W. S83. A speaking demurrer is one which, in order to sustain itself, requires the aid of a fact not appearing on the face of the pleading objected to, or, in other ...
Christy v. Burch, 25 Fla. $42, 2 South
258. Common recoveries were abolished by the statutes 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74.
Christy, 30. Ohio St
115, 27 Am. Rep. 4831.
CHURCH
tution of the state, (see the first clause of Magna Charta,) of which the sovereign is the supreme head by act of parliament, (26 Hen. VIII. c. 1,) but in what sense is not agreed. The sovereign must be a member of the c...