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C A V

An abbreviation for curia ad- visari vult, the court will be advised, will consider, will deliberate.

CAETERORNM

When a limited administration has been granted, and all the property cannot be administered under it. administration ewtcrorum (as to the residue) may be granted.

CALLING TO THE BAR

In English practice. Conferring the dignity or degree of barrister at law upon a member of one of the inns of court. Holthouse.

CANCELLI

The rails or lattice work or balusters inclosing the bar of a court of justice or the communion table. Also the lines drawn on the face of a will or other writing,

CANTRED

A district comprising a hundred villages; a hundred. A term used in Wales in the same sense as “hundred” is in England. Cowell; Termes de la Ley.

CAPITAL, N

In political economy, that portion of the produce of industry existing in a country, which may be made directly available, either for the support of human existence, or the facilitating of production;

CAPITARE

In old law and surveys. To head, front, or abut; to touch at the head, oi end.

CAPTATION

In French law. The act of one who succeeds in controlling the will of another, so as to become master of it; used in an invidious sense. Zerega v. Perei- vnl, 46

CANUT

prin- cipium, et finis. The head, beginning, and end. A term applied in English law to the king, as head of parliament. 4 Inst 3 ; 1 Bl. Comm. 188.

CARRERA

In Spanish law. A carriage-way; the right of a carriage-way. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 31, 1. 3.

CARTE BLANCHE

A white sheet of paper; an instrument signed, but otherwise left blank. A sheet given to an agent, with the principal’s signature appended, to be filled up with any contract or engagement

CASE AGREED ON

A formal written enumeration of the facts in a case, assented to by both parties as correct and complete, and submitted to the court by their agreement, in order that a decision

CASSETUR BREVE

(Lat. That the writ be quashed.) In practice. The form of the judgment for the defendant on a plea in abatement where the action was commenced by original writ, (breve.) 3 Bl.

CASTRENSE PCCULIUM

a portion of property which a son acquired in war, or from his connection with the camp. Dig. 49, 17.

CATALLA OTIOSA

Dead goods or chattels, as distinguished from animals. Idle cattle, that is, such as were not used for working, as distinguished from beasts of the plow ; called also animalia otiosa. Bract,

CATONIANA REGULA

In Roman law. The rule which is commonly expressed in the maxim, Quod a6 initio non valet tractu iemporis non convalebit, meaning that what is at the beginning void by reason of

CAUSA MORTIS

In contemplation of approaching death. In view of death. Commonly occurring in the phrase donatio oausa mortis, (q. v.)

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