Category: C

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

In Hindu law. Head of affairs; the state or government; a grand division of a province; a headman. A name used by Europeans in Bengal to denote the Hindu writer and accountant

A box or chest for the deposit of charters, deeds, and things of value. CITACION 202 CITIZEN

Lat. Civil, as distinguished from criminal. Civilis actio, a civil action. Bract, fol. 1016.

A term applied to statutory enactments which divide the people or subjects of legislation into classes, with reference either to the grant of privileges or the imposition of burdens, upon an arbitrary,

A treasurer of a church.

In old English law. Admitting of clergy, or benefit of clergy. A CLERICAL 208 CLERK clergyable felony was one of that class in which clergy was allowable. 4 Bl. Comm. 371- 373.

In English law. Officers who officiate as associates on the circuits. They record all judicial proceedings done by the judges on the circuit.

In old English law. Cli- entship, the state of a client; and, correlative^, protection, patronage, guardianship.

Rule of violence; regulation by force; the law of arms.

In English law. A seal belonging to the custom-house, or rather a scroll of parchment, sealed and delivered by the officers of the custom-house to merchants, as a warrant that their merchandises

Mutual purchase. One of the modes in which marriage was contracted among the Romans. The man and the woman delivered to each other a small piece of money. The man asked the

(He has confessed the action.) A defendant’s written confession of an action brought against him. to which he has no available defense. It is usually upon condition that he shall be allowed

That which is made over and above the principal assurance or deed itself.

In the civil law. The guild of a trade.

In America, this term designates the body of law in force in the thirteen original colonies before the Declaration of Independence. In England, the term signifies the laws enacted by Canada and