Category: C

The initial letter of the word “Codex,” used by some writers in citing the Code of Justiniau. Tayl. Civil Law, 24. It was also the letter iuscribed on the ballots by which,

A large and strong rope or chain, such as is attached to a vessel’s anchors, or the traction-rope of a street railway operated by the cable system, (Hooper v. Railway Co., 85

Other things being equal.

Successively drawing out of a box into which they have been previously put the names of the jurors on the panels annexed to the nisi prius record, and calling them over in

In old English law. A chamber, room, or apartment; a judge’s chamber ; a treasury; a chest or coffer. Also, a stipend payable from vassal to lord; an annuity.

A chancellor; a scrivener, or notary. A Janitor, or one who stood at the door of the court and was accustomed to carry out the commands of the judges.

A lump, or that which is added above measure; also a piece of anything, as “cantel of bread,” or the like. Blount.

(You take the outlaw.) In English practice. A writ which lies against a person who has been outlawed in an action, by which the sheriff is commanded to take him, and keep

A head-land. A piece of land lying at the head of other land.

In old records. A cap. Cappa honoris, the cap of honor. One of the solemnities or ceremonies of creating an earl or marquis.

A dead head; dead ; obsolete.

In French law. Lack of assets ; insolvency. A prods-verbal de carence is a document setting out that the huissier attended to issue execution upon a judgment, but found nothing upon which

In English law. A license by the lord mayor of London to keep a cart.

In old English law. The charter of the forest. More commonly called “Charta de Forcsta,” {q. v.)

1. A general term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; a question contested before a court of justice; an aggregate of facts which furnishes occasion for

(Fr. cour de causation.) The highest court in France; so termed from possessing the power to quash (causer) the decrees of inferior courts. It is a court of appeal in criminal as

In old English law. Rents paid by those that dwelt within the precincts of a castle, towards the maintenance of such as watched and warded it.

Lo opuesto a la “buena fe”, por lo general lo que implica o que involucra fraude real o presunto, o un plan para inducir a error o engaño a otro, o una

In Scotch law. A creditor whose debt is secured on all or several distinct parts of the debtor’s property. Bell.

A form of action which anciently lay against a party who boasted or gave out that he or she was married to the plaintiff, whereby a common reputation of their marriage might