Category: C

Manner of living; habits of life; conduct; as in the phrase “chaste life and conversation.” Bradshaw v. People, 153 111. 150, 38 N. E. 652. “Criminal conversation” means seduction of another man’s

In forest law. A thicket, or covert of wood.

A small wood consisting of underwood, which may be cut at twelve or fifteen years’ growth for fuel.

A measure of wood, containing 128 cubic feet Kennedy v. Railroad Co., 67 Barb. (N. Y.) 177.

In English law. The name of a writ for the removal of a coroner, for a cause which is to be therein assigned, as that he is engaged in other business, or

Certain courts in Virginia described as follows: “For each city of the state, there shall be a court called a ‘corporation court,’ to be held by a judge, with like qualifications and

In the civil and Scotch law. Joint creditors ; creditors in solido. I’oth. Obi. pt. 2, c. 4, art. 3,

In old English law. Kindred ; cousinship. Also a writ that lay for the heir where the tresail, i. e., the father of the besail, or great-grandfather, was seised of lands in

A fashionable association, or a knot of persons forming a particular circle. The origin of the term was purely commercial, signifying an association, in which each member furnished his part, and bore

A court instituted by Henry VIII. in 1537, to administer justice in Yorkshire and the four other northern counties. Under the presidency of Stratford, the court showed great rigor, bordering, it is

A security given to one who has entered into a bond or become surety for another; a countervailing bond of indemnity.

The name given to the principal subdivisions of the kingdom of England and of most of the states of the American Union, denoting a distinct portion of territory organized by itself for

The course of a river is a line parallel with its banks; the term is not synonymous with the “current” of the river. Attorney General v. Railroad Co., 9 N. J. Eq.

An English tribunal composed of delegates appointed by royal commission, and formerly the great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes. Tlie powers of the court were, by 2 & 3 Win.

In English law. The name of a court established in 1857, under the probate act of that year, (20 & 21 Vict. c. 77,) to be held in London, to which court

An undertaking, in the form of a covenant, on the part of the vendor of real estate to do such further acts for the purpose of perfecting the purchaser’s title as the

Deceitful; fraudulent; having the nature of, or tainted by, covin.

Worthy of belief; entitled to credit. See COMPETENCY.

2 Inst. 479. Vice increasing, punishment ought also to increase.

The nameless crime; the crime against nature; sodomy or buggery.