Category: C

A crofter; one holding a croft.

In England, the solicitor to the treasury acts, in state prosecutions, as solicitor for the crown in preparing the prosecution. In Ireland there are officers called “crown solicitors” attached to each circuit,

To whomsoever a jurisdiction is given, those things also are supposed to be granted, without which the jurisdiction cannot be exercised. Dig. 2, 1, 2. The grant of jurisdiction implies the grant

In old records. The laying up a ship in a dock, in order to be repaired. Cowell; Blount

Equity never counteracts the laws.

An abbreviation for cum testa- mento annexo, in describing a species of administration.

Relating to or of the nature of escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation, 2 Bl. Comm. 245.

In English practice. A list kept by the sheriffs containing the names of all the prisoners in their custody, with the several judgments against each in the margin. Staundef. P. C. 182

In Spanish law. Exchange. Schm. Civil Law, 148.

In old English law. The fighting of two champions or combatants in the field; the judicial combat or duellum. 3 Inst. 221.

That duty which a clergyman owes to the bishop who ordained him, to the bishop in whose diocese he is beneficed, and also to the metropolitan of such bishop. Wharton.

A judicial writ, (usually simply termed a “capias,”) by which actions at law were frequently commenced; and which commands the sheriff to take the defendant, and him safely keep, so that he

Chief justice of the bench. The title of the chief justice of the (now) court of common pleas, first mentioned in the first year of Edward I. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 48.

Assemblies or chapters, held by rural deans and parochial clergy, within the precinct of every deanery; which at first were every three weeks, afterwards once a month, and subsequently once a quarter.

The castle or chief seat of a baron.

A prison is ordained not for the sake of punishment, but of detention and guarding. Lofft, 119.

The act of a man in having sexual bodily connection with a woman. Carnal knowledge and sexual intercourse held equivalent expressions. Noble v. State, 22 Ohio St. 541. From very early times,

To provide funds or credit for its payment for the period agreed upon from the date of purchase. Saltus v. Genin, 16 N. Y. Super. Ct. 200. And see Pickering v. Demerritt,

The name as carucage, (q. v.) Cowell.

An officer of a moneyed Institution, or commercial house, or bank, who is intrusted with, and whose duty it is to take care of, the cash or money of such institution or