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A share; a champertor’s share; a champertous division or sharing of land.

The legal rules by which inheritances are regulated. and according to which estates are transmitted by descent from the ancestor to the heir. 2 Bl. Comm. 208. 3. A dignitary of the

A writ issued, in a case of misdemeanor, after the defendant has appeared and is found guilty, to bring him to hear judgment if he is not present when called. 4 Bl.

Chief lord. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 12.

Chapters of the crown. Chapters or heads of inquiry, resembling the oapitula itincris. (infra) but of a more minute character.

A head; the head of a person; the whole person ; the life of a person; one’s personality; status; civil condition. At common law. A head. Caput comitatis, the head of the

Gaol-dues; prison-fees.

In old English law. A quantity of wool, whereof thirty make a sarplar. (The latter is equal to 2,240 pounds in weight.) St. 27 Hen. VI. c. 2. Jacob.

In criminal law. The act of removal or asportation, by which the crime of larceny is completed, and which is essential to constitute it. Com. v. Adams, 7 Gray (Mass.) 45; Com.

A certain quantity of land used as the basis for taxation. As much land as may be tilled by a single plow in a year and a day. Also, a team of

In England. A bank-note of a provincial bank or of the Baak of England.

A castellain; the keeper or constable of a castle. Spelman.

A poor person who. in England, applies for relief in a parish other than that of his settlement. The ward in the work-house to which they are admitted is called the “casual

Things caught, and in the possession, custody, power, and dominion of the party, with a present capacity to use them for his own purposes. The term includes blubber, or pieces of whale

In the civil law. Innkeepers. Dig. 4, 9; Id. 47, 5; Story, Ag.

A base (immoral or illegal) cause or consideration. Causa causae est causa causati. The cause of a cause is the cause of the thing caused. 12 Mod. 039. The cause of the

In English ecclesiastical law. A writ that lies against a bishop who holds an excommunicated person in prison for contempt, notwithstanding he offers sufficient caution or security to obey the orders and

In old English law. A schedule. In Spanish law. An act under private signature, by which a debtor admits the amount of the debt, and binds himself to discharge the same on

In Canadian law. Tenure by cens, (q. v.)

An English court having jurisdiction for the trial of crimes and misdemeanors committed in London and certain adjoining parts of Kent, Essex, and Sussex, and of such other criminal cases as may