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(or Brand. For Attachm.) Brandon on Foreign Attachment.
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BREVIA
Lat. Writs. The plural of breve, which see.
BREVIBUS ET ROTULIS LIBERAN
DIS. A writ or mandate to a sheriff to de liver to his successor the county, and appurtenances, with the rolls, briefs, remembrance, and all other things belonging to his office. Reg. Orig. 295. -
BRIBE
course.—Brevia formata. Certain writs of approved and established form which were granted of course in actions to which they were applicable, and which could not be changed but by consent of the great council of the realm.
BRINGING MONEY INTO COURT
The act of depositing money in the custody of a court or of its clerk or marshal, for the purpose of satisfying a debt or duty, or to await the result of an interpleader. Dirks v. Juel, 59 Neb. 353, 80 N. W. 1045.
Bro
(Pa.). ports. 8yn. Brown’s Synopsis of Dec sions, Scotch Court of Session. and Browne.
Browne, Div
223. 30. : 322.—Instrument of evidence. Instruments of evidence are the medta through which the evidence of facts, either disputed or required to be proved, is conveyed to the mind of a judicial tribunal; and_ they comprise persons, as well as wr...
Burrows, 414, 417; Smith v. Jones, 68 Vt
132, 34 Atl 424. As to the distinction between competency and credibility. nee COMPETENCY. —Credibly informed. The statement in a pleading or affidavit that one is ‘‘credibly informed and verily believes” such and such. Facts, means that, hav...
BUSHEL
BURLAWS. In Scotch law. Laws made by neighbors elected by common consent in the burlaw courts. Skene. —Burlaw courts. Courts consisting of neighbors selected by common consent to act as
BY BILL, BY BILL WITHOUT WRIT
In practice. Terms anciently used to designate actions commenced by original Dill, as distinguished from those commenced by original writ, and applied in modern practice to suits commenced by capias ad respondendum. 1 Arch. Pr. pp. 2, 337; Harkness v...
CACHEPOLUS, or CACHERELLAS
An inferior bailiff, or catchpoll. Jacob.
CADERE
Lat. To end; cease: fail. As in the phrases cadit actio, (or breve,) the action (or writ) fails; cadtt assisa, the assise abates ; cadit questio, the discussion ends, there is no room for further argument.
Can
241; 10 Low. Can. 325. 221. 8.C. Rep. Canada Supreme Court Reports.
CANFARA
erly, the Protestants went, and the Papists now go, in procession with lighted candles ; they also consecrate candles‘on this day for the service of the ensuing year. It is the fourth of the four cross quarter-days of the year. Wharton.
Cass. Sup
0. Prac. © Cassel’s Supreme Court Practice, 2d édition by Masters. .
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 evidence in suits upon questio...
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 a cause before verdict, with i...
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
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 and industrial interests of the...
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-
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.
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 manufactures, and on domestic busin...
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 new use, but which does not l...
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.
CHIRGEMOT, CHIRCHGEMOT. In
Saxon law. An ecclesiastical assembly or court. Spelman. A synod or meeting in a church or vestry. 4 Inst. 321.
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 them to be so; leas manifestly ...
CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS
CIRCADA. A tribute anciently paid to the bishop or archbishop for visiting churches. Du Fresne.
CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS. A
system of courts of the United States (one in each circuit) created by act of congress of