Terms beginning with "C" (875 total)

CLARE CONSTAT

(it clearly appears.) In Scotch law. The name of a precept for giving seisin of lands to an heir; so called from its initial words. EIrsk. Inst. 3, 8, :71.

CLARENDON, CONSTITUTIONS OF

The constitutions of Clarendon were certain statutes made in the reign of Henry II. of England, at a parliament held at Clarendon, (A. D. 1164,) by which the king checked the power of the pope and his clergy, and greatly...

CLAUSUM FREGIT

the ‘parties attending,” or, shortly, “classtfying,” or “classification.” In practice the term is also applied to the directions given by the chief clerk as to which of the parties are to attend on each of th...

Clepper, 26 Tex

629, 84 Am. Dec. 591.—Tacit mortgage. In Louisiana. The same as a “legal” mortgage. See supra.—Welsh mortgage. In English law. A species of security which partakes of the nature of a mortgage, as there is a debt ...

Cline, 40 W. Va

194, 20 S. E. 920.—Failure of evidence. Judicially speaking, a_ total “failure of evidence’? means not only the utter absence of all evidence, but it also means a failure to offer proof, either positive or inferen-

CLOSE

or defender, in suits at law and other diffculties; and was bound, in return, to pay him all respect and honor, and to serve him with his life and fortune in any extremity. as distinguished from those that are open or p...

Clough, 71 N. H. 594

53 Atl. 1086. 67 L. R. A. People v. Hyatt, 172 N. Y. 176, 64 N. EB. . 60 L. R. A. 774, 92 Am. St. Rep. 706. —Fugitive offenders. In English law. Where a person accused of any offense punishable by imprisonment, with ha...

Co, v. State, és Tex

542, 4 W. 86).—Ob= jects of a power. Where property is settled subject to a power given to any person or persons to appoint the same among a limited class, the members of the class are called the. “objects” of the ...

Co. . Litt

18646, 2290, 365c; Wing. Max. 752, max. 2038. A maxim applied to the practice of the courts, to the ancient and established forms of pleading and conveyancing, and to professional usage generally. Id. 752-755. Lord Coke ...

Co., 130 Ind

321, 380 N. E. 308; Wright v. New York Cent. R. Co., 25 N. Y. 565; Glover v. Kansas City Bolt Co., 153 Mo. 327, 55 8. W. 88; Brunell v. Southern Pac. Co., 34 Or. 256, 56 Pac. 129; Doughty v. Penobscot Log

Co., 138 S. ©

267. Local customs are such as prevail only in some particular district or locality, or in some city, county, or town. ‘Bodfish v. Fox, 23 Me. 95, 39 Am. Dec. 611; Clou v. Wing, 2 Ariz. 371, 17 Pac. 457. Part r customs...