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An auctioneer. Carr v. Gooch, 1 Wash. (Va.) 337, (262.) One who calls out aloud; one who publishes or proclaims. See CRIER.

Whose right it is to institute, his right it Is to abrogate. Broom, Max. 878, note.

A field on which a crop of wheat is growing is a cultivated field, although not a stroke of labor may have been done in it since the seed was put in

An abbreviation for Code of Civil Procedure; also for court of common pleas.

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.

Carriers who transport goods and merchandise in carts, usually for short distances, for hire.

A professional name for the aggregate of reported cases as forming a body of jurisprudence; or for the law of a particular subject as evidenced or formed by the adjudged cases ;

To cast away a ship is to do such an act upon or in regard to it as causes it to perish or be lost, so as to be irrecoverable by ordinary

A writ of entry framed under the provisions of the statute of Gloucester, (0 Edw. I.,) c. 7, which lay for the benefit of the reversioner when a tenant in dower aliened