Category: C

That which happens accidentally, or is brought about by causes unknown ; fortuitous; the result of chance. Lewis v. Lofley, 92 Ga. 804, 19 S. El 57.

Goods and chattels. See CATALLA

Highroads or ways pitched with flint or other stones

A remote or mediate cause; a cause operating indirectly by the intervention of other causes.

In Scotch law, and in admiralty law. Surety ; security; bail; an undertaking by way of surety. 6 Mod. 1G2. See CAUTIO

To yield up ; to assign ; to grant. Generally used to designate the transfer of territory from one government to another. Goetz v. United States (C. C.) 103 Fed. 72; Baltimore

In old English law. Farmers, or such persons as were liable to pay a census, (tax.) Blount; Cowell. OENSERE 181 CENTRAL OFFICE

The principal inhabitants of a ccntena, or district composed of different villages, originally in number a hundred, but afterwards only called by that name

Ascertained; precise; identified; definitive; clearly known; unambiguous ; or, in law, capable of being identified or made known, without liability to mistake or ambiguity, from data already given. Cooper v. Bigly, 13

That is certain which can be rendered certain. 9 Coke, 47; Broom, Max. 623

In Scotch law. An assignee. Bell.

Twelve sacks of coals, each holding three bushels, weighing about a ton and a half. In Wales they reckon 12 barrels or CHALLENGE 187 CHAMBER BUSINESS pitchers a ton or chaldron, and

(Lat. Campus Mar- tii.) The field or assembly of March. The national assembly of the Franks, held in the month of March, in the open air.

Properly speaking, the removal of a suit begun in one county or district to another county or district for trial, though the term is also sometimes applied to the removal of a

Under the former system of equity practice, this phrase was used to characterize the usual method of taking an account before a master. After the plaintiff had presented his “charge,” a written

A deed-poll.

In old European law. A keeper of records or public instruments ; a chartulary; a registrar. Spelman

A draft or order upon a bank or banking-house, purporting to be drawn upon a deposit of funds, for the payment at all events of a certain sum of money to a

subject to the direction of his superior officer, with the superintendence of the administration of the business of the ollice

In old English law. A road, way, highway. It is either the king’s highway (rhiminus regis) or a private way. The first is that over which the subjects of the realm, and