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on and old English law. Castle work. Service and labor done by inferior tenants for the building and upholding castles and public places of defense. One of the three -necessary charges, (trinoda necessitas,) to which all lands among the Saxons were e...
TRICTIONIS. An obsolete writ that lay where a house was within a borough, for rent issuing out of the same, and which warranted the taking of doors, windows, etc., by way of distress.
CATALS. Goods and chattels. See Ca-
or mode of acquiring property ; hence a title: Thus, “TVitulus est justa causa possidendt id quod nostrum est,” title is the lawful ground of possessing that which is ours. 8 Coke, 153. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, §$§ 242, 283.
QUARE. A writ addressed to a mayor of a town, etc., who was by the king’s writ commanded to give seisin of lands to the king’s grantee, on his delaying to do it, requiring him to show cause why he so delayed the performance of his duty. Blount; C...
Lat. Let him beware. A formal notice or warning given by a party interested to a court, judge, or ministerial officer against the performance of certain acts within his power and jurisdiction. This process may be used in the proper courts to prevent ...
MORTHIDUS. A dead rent, like that which is called “mortmain.” Blount; Cowell.
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.
(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.
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.
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 ultimately fall upon the insurers....
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 establishing lines and marking corn...
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
TWO UNIVERSITIES. In English law. Courts of local jurisdiction in and for the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England.
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 reference to the cultivation of theo...
In the law of wills. A responsibility or liability imposed by the testator upon a devisee personally, or upon the land devised.
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 substitute for a minister or a...
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, according to the custom of the C...
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 distinction of sex. Miller v....
EY. A tax upon chimneys or hearths; an ancient tax or duty upon houses in England, now repealed. aH
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. 988. The word “treble,” in...
Fr. A thing; an article of property. A chose is a chattel personal, (Wil-
611. 32 South. 101; Gaines v. Galbraeth, 14 Lea (Tenn.) ore —Backwater. Water in a stream which, - eousequence. of some dan or obstruction below,
v.) is sometimes so called.— Specific legacy. A legacy or gift by will of a particular specified thing, as of a horse, a piece of furniture, a term of years, and the like. Morriss vy. Garland, 78 Va. 222. In a strict sense, a legacy of a particular...
dence directed to the attending circumstances; evidence which inferentially proves the principal fact by establishing a condition. of surrounding and Hmiting circumstances, whose existence is a premise from which the existence of the principal fact m...
109. Capital stock, as employed in acts of incorporation, is never used to indicate the value of the property of the company. It is very generally, if not universally, used to designate the amount of capital prescribed to be contributed at the outset...
1895, $ 1076; McNally v. Connolly, 70 Cal. 3, 11 Pac. 320; Miller v. Waddingham (Cal.) 25 Pac. 688, 11 L. R. A. 510. . 1895. § 3713.—Line of eredit. See LIN£.--Mutual credits. In bankrupt law. Credits which must, from their nature. terminate in ...
1. A challenge of the property or ownership of a thing which is wrongfully withheld from the possession of the claimant. Stowel v. Zouch, Plowd. 359; Robinson vy. Wiley, 15 N. Y. 491; Fordyce v. Godman, 20 Ohio St. 14; Douglas v. Beasley, 40 Ala. 147...
livery. An action at law for the recovery of specific personal chattels wrongfully taken and detained, with damages which the wrongful taking or detention has caused; in substance a modern modification of the common-law action of replevin. Fredericks...
(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.