Category: C

In old records. A box, cabinet, or repository in which were preserved the relics of martyrs. Spelman. A small building in which relics were preserved; an oratory or chapel. Id. In old

Chief warden or magistrate; mayor. Fleta, lib. 2, c.

A covering for the head, mentioned in St. 1 Hen. IV. and other old statutes, which prescribe what dresses shall be worn by all degrees of persons. Jacob.

In International law. One who takes or seizes property in time of war; one who takes the property of an enemy. In a stricter sense, one who takes a prize at sea.

In old English law. To load ; to load a vessel; to freight.

In old English law. Carriage; the carrying of goods or other things for the king.

Common, carriers of passengers are such as undertake for hire to carry all persons indifferently who may anplv for passage. Oillinghnm v. Railroad Co.. 35 W. Va. 5S

A plow.

A record, in book-keeping, of all cash transactions; an account of moneys received and expended.

A fortress in a town; the principal mansion of a nobleman. 3 Inst. 31.

In practice. The nominal defendant in an action of ejectment; so called because, by a fiction of law peculiar to that action, he is supposed to come casually or by accident upon

An old name for an archdeaco

In the civil law. An innkeeper. Dig. 4. 9, 4, 5.

The reason of the knowledge is evident A technical phrase in Scotch practice, used in depositions of witnesses

In Scotch law. Security given by oath. That which a suspender swears is the best he can afford in order to obtain a suspension. Ersk. Pract. 4, 3, G.

In Scotch law. An assignor. One who transfers a chose in action.

In the Roman law. To ordain ; to decree. Dig. 50, 16, 111.

In Roman law. The hundredth part.

In pleading. Distinctness ; clearness of statement; particularity. Such precision and explicitness iu the statement of alleged facts that the pleader’s averments and contention may be readily understood by the pleader on

A mound, fence, or inclosure.