COURT OF BROTHERHOOD. An as
sembly of the mayora_or other chief officers of the principal towns of the Cinque Ports in England, originally administering the chief powers of those ports, now almost extinct. Cent. Dict.
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COURT OF ERRORS AND APPEALS
The court of last resort in the state of New Jersey is so named. Formerly, the same title was given to the highest court of appeal in New York.
COURT OF PRIVATE LAND
upon the thorough. reduction of that principality and the settling of its polity in the reign of Henry VIII., were erected all over the country. These courts, however, have been abolished by 1 Wm. IV. c. 70; the principality being now divided into tw...
COURT OF STAR CHAMBER
COURT OF REGARD. In English law. One of the forest courts, in England, held every third year, for the lawing or expeditation of dogs, to prevent them from running
COURT OF THE DUCHY OF LANCAS
TER. <A court of special jurisdiction, held before the chancellor of the duchy or ‘his deputy, concerning all matters of equity relating to lands holden of the king in right of the duchy of Lancaster. 3 BL Comm. 78,
COURT OF WARDS AND LIVERIES
A court of record, established in England in the reign of Henry VIII. For the survey and management of the valuable fruits of tenure, a court of record was created by St. 32 Hen. VIII. c 46, called the “Court of the King’s Wards.” To this was a...
COURTS OF ASSIZE AND NISI
PRIUS. Courts in England composed of two or more commissioners, called “judges of assize,” (or of “assize and nist prius,”) who are twice in every year sent by the king’s special commission, on circuits all round the kingdom, to try, by a j...
COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES
comprise the following: The senate of the United States, sitting as a court of impeachment; the supreme court; the circuit courts; the circuit courts of appeals; the district courts; the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia;...
COURTS OF WESTMINSTER HALL
The superior courts, both of law and equity, were for centuries fixed at Westminster, an ancient palace of the monarchs of Englund. Fornierly, all the superior courts were held before the king’s capital justiciary of England, in the aula regis, or ...
Crabb, Real Prop
CREAMUS
Lat. We create. One of the words by which:a corporation in England
Creditors, 17 La
206; Barkley-v. His Creditors, 11 Rob. (La.) 22—Law eourt of apeals. In American law. An appellate triunal. ommcry existing in the state of South Carolina, for hearing appeals from the courts of law.—Law day. See Day.—Law French. The Norman Fre...
Crim. Pr
84.—Lord and vassal. In the feudal system, the grantor, who retained the dominion or ultimate property, was called
Critchlow, 112 Mass
343. 17 Am. Rep. 176.— passage. In parliamentary law. The final passage of a bill is the vote on its passage in either house of the legislature, after it has received the prescribed number of readings on as many different days in that house. State ...
CUI ANTE DIVORTIUM
(To whom before divorce.) A writ for a woman divorced from her husband to recover her lands and tenements which she had in feesimple or in tail, or for life, from him to whom her husband alienated them during the marriage, when she could not gainsay ...
CUI IN VITA
(To whom in life) A writ of entry for a widow against him to whom her husband aliened her lands or tenements in his life-time; which must: contain in it that during his life she could not withstand it. Reg. Orig. 232; Fitgh. Nat.
CUILIBET IN ARTE SUA PERJTO
Saxon language is said to signify the scolding-stool, though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking-stool, because the judgment was that, when the woman was placed therein, she should be plunged in the water It was also variously called a “tre...
Cummings vy. Everett, 82 Me
260, 19 Atl. 456. —Barons of the cinque ports. Members of perament from these ports, viz.: Sandwich, tomney, Hastings, Hythe, and Dover. Winchelsea and Rye have been added.—Barons of the exchequer. The six judges of the court of exchequer in Engl...
CURATOR
4, tract 8, ca. 18, and tract’ 4, ca. 2, where it seems to mean, one by the ordinary jury. title was also applied to a variety of public officers in Roman administrative law.
CURIA CLAUDENDA
CURIA CLAUDENDA. The name of a writ to compel another to make a fence or wall, which he was bound to make, between his land and the plaintiff's. Reg. Orig. 155. Now obsolete. °
CURTESY
v. U. 8., 23 Fed. Cas. 690.—Current wages. son, 5 Cow. (N. Y.) 74, 15 Am. Dec. 433;
CUSTUMA PARVA ET NOVA
(Small and new customs.) Imposts of 3d. in the pound, due formerly tn England from merehant strangers only, for all commodities, as well imported as exported. This was usually called the “aliens duty,” and was . first granted in 31 Edw. I. 1 Bl. ...
DAMNUM ABSQUE INJURIA. L085s
hurt, or harm without injury in the legal sense, that is, without such an invasion of rights as is redressible by an action. A loss which does not give rise to an action of damages against the person causing it; as where a person blocks up the window...
DAUPHIN. Iv French
ae The title of the eldest sons of the kings of France. Disused since 1830.
DAY
account, is not necessarily the time when the article charged was, in fact, furnished. but rather the time given or set down in the account, in connection with such charge. And so the expression “the date of the last work done, or materials furnish...
DE ACQUIRENDO RERUM DOMINIO
Of (about) acquiring the ownership of things.
DE ASPORTATIS RELIGIOSORUM
Concerning the property of religious persons carried away. The title of the statute 35
DE BONIS NON ADMINISTRATIS
Of the goods not administered. When an: administrator is appointed to succeed another, who has left the estate partially unsettled, he is said to be granted “administra-; tion de bonis non;” that is, of the goods not already administered.
DE BONIS TESTATORIS, or INTES
TATI. Of the goods of the testator, or intestate. A term applied to a judgment awarding execution against the property of a testator or intestate, as distinguished from the individual property of his executor or administrator. 2 Archb. Pr. K. B. 148,...
DE CATALLIS REDDENDIS
(For restoring chattels.) A writ to secure the return specifically of chattels detained from the owner. Cowell.