Category: C

In English law. Criminal prosecutions on behalf of the crown, as representing the public; causes in the criminal courts.

To call out aloud; to proclaim; to publish; to sell at auction. “To cry a tract of land.” Carr v. Gooch, 1 Wash. (Va.) 335, (260.) A clamor raised in the pursuit

Whichever [of two parties] has the division, [of an estate,] the choice [of the shares] is the other’s. Co. Litt. 1006. In partition between coparceners, where the division is made by the

A person who is indicted for a criminal offense, but not yet convicted. It is not, however, a technical term of the law; and in its vernacular usage it seems to imply

Various terms or phrases may be denoted by this abbreviation ; such as circuit court, (or city or county court;) criminal cases, (or crown or civil or chancery cases;) civil code; chief

In Spanish-American law. Property entailed on the caciques, or heads of Indian villages, and their descendants. Sehm. Civil Law, 309.

An English statute for enabling the court of chancery to award damages. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 27.

In Scotch law. A gift to the head of a clan, as an acknowledgment for protection and maintenance.

The science of finance or public revenue, comprehending the means of raising and disposing of it

In English law. A festival appointed by the church to be observed on the second day of February in every year, in honor of the purification of the Virgin Mary, being forty

Competent to transact affairs; having business capacity.

Live cattle. Blount.

Lat. By the head. Tenure in capite was an ancient feudal tenure, whereby a man held lands of the king immediately. It was of two sorts,

In old English law and practice. A taking or seizure ; arrest; receiving; holding of court.

In old English law. A head of land; a headland. Cowell.

In French commercial law. Cargo; lading.

A Ship of great burden.

A vessel commissioned in time of war to exchange the prisoners of any two hostile powers; also to carry any particular proposal from one to another. For this reason, the oilicer who

In practice. A case prepared by the party against whom a verdict has been given, upon which to move the court to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial. 3.

In old English practice. To allege, offer, or present; to proffer by way of excuse, (as to “cast an essoin.”) This word is now used as a popular, rather than a technical,