Category: C

Lat. By the head; by the poll; severally to each individual.

A person who obtains a gift or legacy through artifice.

In old English law. Head or poll money, or the payment of it Cowell; Blount.

In Spanish law. An incumbrance; a charge. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 13, c. 2,

A vehicle used for the transportation of persons either for pleasure or business, and drawn by horses or other draught animals over the ordinary streets and highways of the country; not including

An agreement between two hostile powers for the delivery of prisoners or deserters. Also a written challenge to fight a duel.

A statement in writing of the facts proved on the trial of a cause, drawn up and settled by the attorneys and counsel for the respective parties under the supervision of the

A garment worn by a priest.

Lat In Roman law. A camp. In old English law. A castle. Bract, fol. 696. A castle, including a manor. 4 Coke, 88.

An obsolete writ that lay where a house was within a borough, for rent issuing out of the same, and which warranted the taking of doors, windows, etc., by way of distress

A term which includes the domestic animals generally; all the animals used by man for labor or food. Animals of the bovine genus. In a wider sense, all domestic animals used by

The reason is open, obvious. plain, clear, or manifest. A common expression in old writers. Perk. c. 1,

Security given by pledge, or deposit, as plate, money, or other goods.

In old English law. Cay- age or kayage; a toll or duty anciently paid for landing goods at a quay or wharf. Cowell.

A notice given by a buyer to a seller that the things which had been sold were claimed by another, in order that he might appear and justify the sale. Blount; Whishaw.

A coin of the United States, the least in value of those now minted. It is the one-hundreth part of a dollar. Its weight is 72 gr., and it is composed of

In old English law. A payment to provide candles in the church. Blount

In Scotch practice. This is the assurance given to a party of the course to be followed In case he does not appear or obey the order of the court CERTIFICATION OF

In Roman law. Cession of goods. A surrender, relinquishment, or assignment of all his property and effects made by an insolvent debtor for the benefit of his creditors. The effect of this

A term applied metaphorically to the series of conveyances, or other forms of alienation, affecting a particular parcel of land, arranged consecutively, from the government or original source of title down to