Category: C

1. A general term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; a question contested before a court of justice; an aggregate of facts which furnishes occasion for

(Fr. cour de causation.) The highest court in France; so termed from possessing the power to quash (causer) the decrees of inferior courts. It is a court of appeal in criminal as

In old English law. Rents paid by those that dwelt within the precincts of a castle, towards the maintenance of such as watched and warded it.

Lo opuesto a la “buena fe”, por lo general lo que implica o que involucra fraude real o presunto, o un plan para inducir a error o engaño a otro, o una

In Scotch law. A creditor whose debt is secured on all or several distinct parts of the debtor’s property. Bell.

A form of action which anciently lay against a party who boasted or gave out that he or she was married to the plaintiff, whereby a common reputation of their marriage might

In the civil and French law. Security given for the performance of any thing; bail; a bond or undertaking by way of surety. Also the person who becomes a surety. In Scotch

Let the traveler beware. This phrase has been used as a concise expression of the duty of a traveler on the highway to use due care to detect and avoid CAVEATOR 180

A place of burial, differing from a churchyard by its locality and incidents,

A dead rent, like that which is called “mortmain.” Blount; Cowell.

In civil practice. He took. This was the characteristic word employed in (Latin) writs of trespass for goods taken, and in declarations in trespass and replevin. Replevin in the ecpit is a

The same as “certificate of purchase,” supra, (q. v.)

(Let process stay.) A stay of proceedings entered on the record.

Traffic; the practice of buying and selling

Chamberlainship; the office of a chamberlain. Cowell.

In English law. An officer before whom, or his deputy, the court of the duchy chamber of Lancaster is held. This is a special jurisdiction concerning all manner of equity relating to

An itinerant vendor of small wares. A trader who trades from place to place. Say. 191, 192.

The word “chart,” as used in the copyright law, does not include sheets of paper exhibiting tabulated or methodically arranged information. Taylor v. Gilman (C. C.) 24 Fed. 632.

Otherwise called “book-land,” is property held by deed under certain rents and free services. It, in effect, differs nothing from the free socage lands, and hence have arisen most of the freehold

A kind of tenure mentioned In a patent of 35 Edw. III. Cowell; Blount