Category: C

Abbreviation; abridgment or shortening of a word by omitting a letter or letters or a syllable, with a mark over the place where the elision occurs. This was customary in records written

In the civil law. To handle; to take hold of; to meddle with. In old English law. To treat. Vel maid conlrectet; or shall ill treat Fleta, lib. 1, c. 17,

The refusal or intentional omission of a person who has been duly cited before a court to appear and defend the charge laid against him, or, if he is duly before the

In Roman law. An agreement between parties; a pact. A convention was a mutual engagement between two persons, possessing all the subjective requisites of a contract, but which did not give rise

A tenure by which a tenant was bound to provide meat and drink lor his lord at least once in the year. Cowell

A custom or tribute due to the crown or lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire; also a hill, or the roof and covering of a house; a

Lat Before; in presence of. Applied to persons only. Townsh. PI. 22.

In logic. A collateral or secondary consequence, deduction, or inference.

The title given in statutes of several states to the aggregate body of officers of a municipal corporation, or to certain of those officers (excluding the others) who are vested with authority

(The body with the cause.) An English writ which issued out of chancery, to remove both the body and the record, touching the cause of any man lying in execution upon a

The name of the legislative assemblies, the parliament or congress, of Spain and Portugal.

Costs which are incurred in preparing for the trial of a cause on a specified day, consisting of witnesses’ fees, and other fees of attendance. Arciib. N. Prac. 281.

A term used In Domesday for peasants, boors, husbandmen

In old English law. Credit; estimation. Wharton. Also, encouragement: aiding and abetting. Cooper v. Johnson, 81 Mo. 487

The signature of a secretary or other subordinate officer to any writing signed by the principal or superior to vouch for the authenticity of it. Fifth Ave. Bank v. Railroad Co., 137

The county-seat; the town in which the seat of government of the county is located. State v. Cates, 105 Tenn. 441, 58 S. W. 649.

The name of an English court of record held once in the year, and not oftener, within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet; being the king’s

An ancient court of the Cinque Ports, having jurisdiction in maritime matters, and particularly over pilots (lodemen.)

Kindred in the fourth degree, being the issue (male or female) of the brother or sister of one’s father or mother. Those who descend from the brother or sister of the father

A contraction, In the old books, of the word “convent”