Category: C

A change or revocation of orders, authority, or Instructions previously issued. It may be either express or implied; the former where the order or instruction already given is explicitly annulled or recalled;

In English law. An imposition levied on the occupiers of lands, and applied to many miscellaneous purposes, among which the most important are those of defraying the expenses connected with prisons, reimbursing

In English law. A court which, although not oue of record, is incident to every manor, and cannot be severed therefrom. It was ordained for the maintenance of the services and duties

The name given in some of the states (as New York) to a court of genei’al original jurisdiction in criminal cases.

of Oxford and Cambridge have jurisdiction in all personal actions to which any member or servant of the respective university is a party, provided that the cause of action arose within the

A covenant by which the covenantor agrees to convey to the covenantee a certain estate, under certain circumstances.

Large; gross; excessive; extreme. Crass a ignorantia, gross ignorance. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 22,

1. The ability of a business man to borrow money, or obtain goods on time, In consequence of the favorable opinion held by the community, or by the particular lender, as to

In maritime law. A list of the crew of a vessel; one of a ship’s papers. This instrument is required by act of congress, and sometimes by treaties. Rev. St. U. S.

That which pertains to or is connected with the law of crimes, or the administration of penal justice, or which relates to or has the character of crime. Charleston v. Beller, 45

The products of the harvest in corn or grain. Emblements. Insurance Co. v. Deliaven (Pa.) 5 Atl. 65; Goodrich v. Stevens. 5 Lans. (N. Y.) 230.

In old Scotch law. Coroner ; a coroner. “Crowner’s quest,” a coroner’s inquest.

He who has the right of giving has also the right of selling and granting. Dig. 50, 17, 163.

Lat A term of the civil law, meaning fault, neglect, or negligence. There are three degrees of culpa,

Where both parties to a judgment appeal therefrom, the appeal of each is called a “cross-appeal” as regards that of the other. 3 Steph. Comm. 5S1.

A small association for the purpose of intrigue; an intrigue. This name was given to that ministry in the reign of Charles II. formed by Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauderdale, who

In the civil and old common law. Kept for cutting; intended or used to be cut. A term applied to wood.

1. In English law. The election of students to the degree of barrister at law, hence the ceremony or epoch of election, and the number of persons elected. 2. In conveyancing. A

Champerty; from campus, a field, and partus, divided. Spelman.

An artificial ditch or trench in the earth, for confining water to a defined channel, to be used for purposes of transportation. The meaning of this word, when applied to artificial passages