Category: C

In Spanish law. An official statement of the quantity and value of real property in spy district, made for the purpose of justly apportioning the taxes payable on such property. 12 Pet

A term used vulgarly, and occasionally in judicial proceedings and law reports, to designate a jail or prison, partic- uarly a town or city jail or lock-up. Supposed to be a corruption

In the civil law. Calumny, malice, or ill design; a false accusation ; a malicious prosecution. Lanning v. Christy, 30 Ohio St. 115, 27 Am. Rep. 431. In the old common law.

A chamberlain; a keeper of the public money; a treasurer. Also a bailiff or receiver.

In old records. A trial by hot iron, formerly used in England. Whish- aw.

In English practice. A judicial writ touching a plea of lands or tenements, divided into cape magnum, or the grand cape, which lay before appearance to summon the tenant to answer the

In old English law. Chief, principal; at the head. A term applied to persons, places, judicial proceedings, and some kinds of property.

In the civil law. One who had suffered capitis diminutio, one who lost status or legal attributes. See Dig. 4, 5.

In practice. That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority it is taken, found, or executed. State v. Sutton, 5 N.

In French law. An instrument of punishment, somewhat resembling a pillory. It sometimes signifies the punishment itself. Biret, Vocab.

In old English law. To charge. Spelman.

One who undertakes to transport persons or property from place to place, by any means of conveyance, and with or without compensation.

A place where papers or records are kept

Ready money; whatever can be used as money without being converted into another form; that which circulates as money, including bank-bills. Hooper v. Flood, 54 Cal. 221; Dazet v. Landry, 21 Nev.

Overthrown, worsted, or defeated in an action.

That which happens accidentally, or is brought about by causes unknown ; fortuitous; the result of chance. Lewis v. Lofley, 92 Ga. 804, 19 S. El 57.

Goods and chattels. See CATALLA

Highroads or ways pitched with flint or other stones

A remote or mediate cause; a cause operating indirectly by the intervention of other causes.

In Scotch law, and in admiralty law. Surety ; security; bail; an undertaking by way of surety. 6 Mod. 1G2. See CAUTIO