Category: C

Security, which tenants for life give, to preserve the property rented free from waste and injury. Ersk. Inst. 2, 9, 59.

Payment or forfeiture of an animal. An ancient species of forfeiture

In old English law. A farm, or house and land let at a standing rent. Cowell.

Petty judges, under-sheriffs of counties, that had rule of a hundred, (ccntena,) and judged smaller matters among them. 1 Vent 211.

In old English law. Head money or common fine. Money paid yearly by the residents of several manors to the lords thereof, for the certain keeping of the leet, (pro eerto Ictw;)

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

The act of ceding; a yielding or giving up; surrender; relinquishment of property or rights. In the civil law. An assignment. The act by which a party transfers property to another. The

In English parliamentary practice. In the commons, this officer, always a member, is elected by the house on the assembling of every new parliament. When the house is in committee on bills

(Lat. Campus Mali.) The field or assembly of May. The national assembly of the Franks, held in the month of May

1. An alteration; substitution of one tiling for another. This word does not connote either improvement or deterioration as a result. In this respect it differs from amendment, which, in law, always

In general. An incumbrance, lien, or burden; an obligation or duty; a liability; an accusation. Darling v. Rogers, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 491. In contracts. An obligation, binding upon him who enters

A collection of the laws of the forest, made in the 9th Hen. III. and said to have been originally a part of Magna Charta.

In old European law. A keeper of records or public instruments ; a chartulary; a registrar. Spelman

A draft or order upon a bank or banking-house, purporting to be drawn upon a deposit of funds, for the payment at all events of a certain sum of money to a

subject to the direction of his superior officer, with the superintendence of the administration of the business of the ollice

In old English law. A road, way, highway. It is either the king’s highway (rhiminus regis) or a private way. The first is that over which the subjects of the realm, and

A local thing; a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. Kitchin, fol. 18; Cowell ; Blount.

A tribute anciently paid to the bishop or archbishop for visiting churches. Du Fresne.

Any violation of the privileges of a church.

One who is skilled or versed in the civil law. A doctor, professor, or student of the civil law. Also a private citizen, as distinguished from such as belong to the army