Category: C

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,

This is a mode of trial now little in use; it is resorted to in cases where the fact in issue lies out of the cognizance of the court, and the judges,

Lat. A cession; a giving up, or relinquishment; a surrender; an assignment

A measure used by engineers and surveyors, being twenty-two yards in length.

In practice. The private room or office of a judge; any place in which a judge hears motions, signs papers, or does other business pertaining to his office, when he is not

In English law. A high officer of the crown, who formerly sat in the exchequer court, and. together with the regular judges of the court, saw that things were conducted to the

In ecclesiastical law. A congregation of ecclesiastical persons in a cathedral church, consisting of canons, or prebendaries, whereof the dean is the head, all subordinate to the bishop, to whom they act

In old English law. A charter or deed; an instrument written and sealed; the formal evidence of conveyances and contracts. Also any signal or token by which an estate was held. The

A contract by which an entire ship, or some principal part thereof, is let to a merchant for the conveyance of goods on a determined voyage to one or more places. The

Money paid to the crown by the servants or purchasers of chauntry-lands. See CIIANTBY.

In old records. Pieces of ground, or heads at the end of plowed lands. Cowell.

This word has two meanings in law: (1) In the law of the domestic relations, and as to descent and distribution, it is used strictly as the correlative of “parent,” and means

In feudal law. Knight- service. Tenure in chivalry was the same as tenure by knight-service. 2 Bl. Comm. 61, 62.

Lat In the civil law. Food; victuals. Dig. 34, 1.

A principal act. or event being the object of investigation, the circumstances are the related or accessory facts or occurrences which attend upon it. which closely precede or follow it, which surround

Sp. In Spanish law, cities; distinguished from towns (pueblos) and villages (villas.) Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 537.