Category: C

The rails or lattice work or balusters inclosing the bar of a court of justice or the communion table. Also the lines drawn on the face of a will or other writing,

A district comprising a hundred villages; a hundred. A term used in Wales in the same sense as “hundred” is in England. Cowell; Termes de la Ley.

In political economy, that portion of the produce of industry existing in a country, which may be made directly available, either for the support of human existence, or the facilitating of production;

In old law and surveys. To head, front, or abut; to touch at the head, oi end.

In French law. The act of one who succeeds in controlling the will of another, so as to become master of it; used in an invidious sense. Zerega v. Perei- vnl, 46

prin- cipium, et finis. The head, beginning, and end. A term applied in English law to the king, as head of parliament. 4 Inst 3 ; 1 Bl. Comm. 188.

A carter. Blount.

In Spanish law. A carriage-way; the right of a carriage-way. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 31, 1. 3.

A white sheet of paper; an instrument signed, but otherwise left blank. A sheet given to an agent, with the principal’s signature appended, to be filled up with any contract or engagement

A formal written enumeration of the facts in a case, assented to by both parties as correct and complete, and submitted to the court by their agreement, in order that a decision

(Lat. That the writ be quashed.) In practice. The form of the judgment for the defendant on a plea in abatement where the action was commenced by original writ, (breve.) 3 Bl.

a portion of property which a son acquired in war, or from his connection with the camp. Dig. 49, 17.

Dead goods or chattels, as distinguished from animals. Idle cattle, that is, such as were not used for working, as distinguished from beasts of the plow ; called also animalia otiosa. Bract,

In Roman law. The rule which is commonly expressed in the maxim, Quod a6 initio non valet tractu iemporis non convalebit, meaning that what is at the beginning void by reason of

In contemplation of approaching death. In view of death. Commonly occurring in the phrase donatio oausa mortis, (q. v.)

Security given by an heir or legatee, in order to obtain immediate possession of the inheritance or legacy, binding him and his surety for his observance of a condition annexed to the

Persons stealing ore from mines in Derbyshire, punishable in the berghmote or miners’ court; also officers belonging to the same mines. Wharton

In old records. Acorns

In English law. The annual revenue or income of the crown

In old English law. The stumps or roots of trees which remain in the ground after the trees are felled. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 41,