Category: C

One who frequently excites and stirs up groundless suits and quarrels, either at law or otherwise. State v. Chit- ty, 1 Bailey, (S. C.) 379; Com. v. Davis, 11 Pick. (Mass.) 432.

The advisory board or council of a king or other chief executive. In the government of the United States the cabinet is composed of the secretary of state, the sec- cretary of

A surgical operation whereby the foetus, which can neither make its way into the world by the ordinary and natural passage, nor be extracted by the attempts of art, whether the mother

In Scotch practice. See this described in Bell. Diet.

In mercantile law. A person skilled in exchanges; one who trades in promissory notes and bills of exchange.

Chancery; the court of chancery. Curia canccllaria is also used in the same sense. See 4 Bl. Comm. 40; Cowell.

In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical benefice, attaching to the office of canon. Holthouse.

A writ, in the nature of a reprisal, which lies for one whose goods or cattle, taken under a distress, are removed from the county, so that they cannot be replevied, commanding

A chief rent.

Head-fields; lands lying at the head or upper end of furrows etc. Capitnlnm est clericorum congregatio sub uno decano in ecclesia cathedrali. A chapter is a congregation of clergy under one dean

In old English law. A wolf’s head. An outlawed felon was said to be caput lupinum. and might be knocked on the head, like a wolf.

As a legal term, this word means diligence, prudence, discretion, attentiveuess, watchfulness, vigilance. It is the opposite of negligence or carelessness. There are three degrees of care in the law, corresponding (Inversely)

In old English law. An immunity or privilege. Cowell.

In old English law. A charter, or deed. Any written instrument. In Spanish law. A letter; a deed; a power of attorney. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 18, 1. 30.

A vassal or feudal tenant possessing a casata; that is, having a house, household, and property of his own.

In French law. Annulling ; reversal; breaking the force and validity of a judgment. A decision emanating from the sovereign authority, by which a decree or judgment in the court of last

In feudal law. An imposition anciently laid upon such persons as lived within a certain distance of any castle, towards the maintenance of such as watched and warded the castle.

In the civil law. A casualty ; an extraordinary casualty, as fire, ship CASUS 176 CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION ACT wreck, etc. Dig. 44, 7, 1, 4.

In English ecclesiastical law. A sum of 2s. paid to the bishop by the inferior clergy; but from its being usually paid at the bishop’s synod, or visitation, it is commonly named

For the purpose of being entertained as a guest. 4 Maule & S. 310.