Category: C

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

To yield up ; to assign ; to grant. Generally used to designate the transfer of territory from one government to another. Goetz v. United States (C. C.) 103 Fed. 72; Baltimore

In old English law. Farmers, or such persons as were liable to pay a census, (tax.) Blount; Cowell. OENSERE 181 CENTRAL OFFICE

The principal inhabitants of a ccntena, or district composed of different villages, originally in number a hundred, but afterwards only called by that name

Ascertained; precise; identified; definitive; clearly known; unambiguous ; or, in law, capable of being identified or made known, without liability to mistake or ambiguity, from data already given. Cooper v. Bigly, 13

A mound, fence, or inclosure.

An assessment, or tax.

1. To object or except to; to prefer objections to a person, right, or instrument; to formally call Into question the capability of a person for a particular function, or the existence

In French law. The grant of a piece of land by the owner to another, on condition that the latter would deliver to him a portion of the crops. 18 Toul- lier,

An officer formerly belonging to the king’s mint, in England, whose business was chiefly to exchange coin for bullion brought in by merchants and others

The title of a diplomatic representative of inferior rank. He has not the title or dignity of a minister, though he may be charged with the functions and offices of the latter,

(Literally, a deed divided.) A charter-party. 3 Kent, Comm. 201. Charta non est nisi vestimentum do- nationis. A deed is nothing else than the vestment of a gift. Co. Litt. 36.

In old English law. A plow. Bestes des charues; beasts of the plow.

A book containing blank checks on a particular bank or banker, with an inner margin, called a “stub,” on which to note the number of each check, its amount and date, and

The judge of the London bankruptcy court is so called. In general, the term is equivalent to “presiding justice” or “presiding magistrate.” Beau v. l

A toll for passing on a way through a forest; called in the civil law “pedagium.” Cowell.

A thing which is movable, and may be taken away or carried from place to place. Cowell; Blount