Category: C

Where a person against whom a demand is made by another, in his turn makes a demand against that other, these mutual demands are called “cross-demands.” A set-off is a familiar example.

The infliction of physical pain, suffering, or death upon an animal, when not necessary for purposes of training or discipline or (in the case of death) to procure food or to release

Every one is to be believed in his own art. Dickinson v. Barber, 9 Mass. 227, 6 Am. Dec. 58.

Misconduct binds [should bind] its own authors. It is a never-failing axiom that every one is accountable only for his own delicts. Ersk. Inst 4, 1, 14.

The initial letter of the word “Codex,” used by some writers in citing the Code of Justiniau. Tayl. Civil Law, 24. It was also the letter iuscribed on the ballots by which,

A large and strong rope or chain, such as is attached to a vessel’s anchors, or the traction-rope of a street railway operated by the cable system, (Hooper v. Railway Co., 85

Other things being equal.

Successively drawing out of a box into which they have been previously put the names of the jurors on the panels annexed to the nisi prius record, and calling them over in

In old English law. A chamber, room, or apartment; a judge’s chamber ; a treasury; a chest or coffer. Also, a stipend payable from vassal to lord; an annuity.

A chancellor; a scrivener, or notary. A Janitor, or one who stood at the door of the court and was accustomed to carry out the commands of the judges.

A lump, or that which is added above measure; also a piece of anything, as “cantel of bread,” or the like. Blount.

(You take the outlaw.) In English practice. A writ which lies against a person who has been outlawed in an action, by which the sheriff is commanded to take him, and keep

A tenant in capite. lie who held his land or title directly from the king himself. A captain; a naval commander.

A head-man; commander; commanding officer. The captain of a warvessel is the officer first in command. In the United States navy, the rank of “captain” is intermediate between that of “commander” and

In old English law. The head of a port. The town to which a port belongs, and which gives the denomination to the port, and is the head of it. Hale de

(spelled, also, Carreta and Correct a.) A cart; a cart-load.

Cloth made in the northern parts of England, of a coarse kind, mentioned in 7 Jac. I. c. 16. Jacob.

In French marine law. A chart.

This term, as used in the constitution of the United States, embraces claims or contentions of litigants brought before the court for adjudication by regular proceedings established for the protect tion or

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