Category: C

The charters (grants) of liberties. These are Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta. Chartarum super fidem, mortuis tes- tibus, ad patriam de necessitudine recurrendum est. Co. Litt. 36. The witnesses being dead,

The liberty or franchise of hunting, one’s self, and keeping protected against all other persons, beasts of the chase within a specified district, without regard to the ownership of the land. 2

A check crossed with two lines, between which are either the name of a bank or the words “and company,” in full or abbreviated. In the former case, the banker on whom

The presiding/eldest, or principal judge of a court of justice

The way by which the king and all his subjects and all under his protection have a right to pass, though the property of the soil of each side where the way

A right to personal things of which the owner has not the possession, but merely a right of action for their possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 3S9, 397; 1 Chit. Pr. 99. A

A division of the country, appointed for a particular judge to visit for the trial of causes or for the administration of justice. Bouvier. Circuits, as the term is used in England,

In Spanish law. Citation; summons; an order of a court requiring a person against whom a suit has been brought to appear and defend within a given time

Civilly dead ; dead in the view of the law. The condition of one who has lost his civil rights and capacities, and is accounted dead in law.

A seaman or soldier serving at sea

A close, or small inclosure. Cowell

Pertaining to clergymen; or pertaining to the office or labor of a clerk.

An officer of a court of justice who has charge of the clerical part of its business, who keeps its records and seal, issues process, enters judgments and orders, gives certified copies

An Inn of chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY

An assistant, helper, or ally; particularly a person appointed to assist a bishop who from age or infirmity is unable to perform his duty

A name which used to be given to the judicial committee of the privy council, the council-room being built on the old cockpit of Whitehall Place.

The act of purchasing the whole quantity of any commodity. Wharton.

Living together; living together as husband and wife. Cohabitation means having the same habitation. not a sojourn, a habit of visiting or remaining for a time; there must be something more than

The ancient title of masters in chancery.

In a corporate capacity. 2 Kent, Comm. 296.