Category: C

In Spanish law. An assignee. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 10, c. 1,

He whose life is the measure of the duration of an estate. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 88. The person for whose life any lands, tenements, or hereditaments are held. Cestuy que doit

In French law. A sovereign court, of great antiquity, in France, which took cognizance of and registered the accounts of the king’s revenue; nearly the same as the English court of exchequer.

In criminal law. An accident ; an unexpected, unforeseen, or uuin- tended consequence of an act; a fortuitous event. The opposite of intention, design, or contrivance. There is a wide difference between

A place of worship; a lesser or inferior church, sometimes a part of or subordinate to another church. Webster. Rex v. Nixon, 7 Car. & P. 442.

Weighty; heavy; penal; expensive. Kelhani.

A challenge to a single combat; also an Instrument or writing between BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

This term, as used in statutes, means actual personal virtue, and not reputation or good name. It may include the character of one who was formerly unchaste but is reformed. Kenyon v.

In old French law. The privilege or prerogative of the eldest. A provincial term derived from chcmicr, (q. v.) Guyot, Inst.

In old English law. A high judicial officer and special magistrate, who presided over the aula- regis of the Norman kings, and who was also the principal minister of state, the second

In Saxon law. An ecclesiastical assembly or court. Spelman. A synod or meeting in a church or vestry. 4 Inst. 321.

In Hindu law. A fourth, a fourth part of the sum in litigation. The “Mahratta chout” is a fourth of the revenues exacted as tribute by the Mahrattas

This occurs where a litigant, by a complex, indirect, or roundabout course of legal proceeding, makes two or more actions necessary, in order to effect that adjustment of rights between all the

In practice. A writ issued out of a court of competent jurisdiction, commanding a person therein named to appear on a day named and do something therein mentioned, or show cause why

Lat. In the Roman law. Any body of people living under the same laws; a state. Jus civitatis, the law of a state; civil law. Inst. 1, 2, 1, 2. Oivitates fcederatce,

A single paragraph or subdivision of a legal document, such as a contract, deed, will, constitution, or statute. Sometimes a sentence or part of a sentence. Appeal of Miles, 08 Conn. 237,

With the burden; subject to an incumbrance or charge. What is taken cum onere is taken subject to an existing burden or charge.

In the civil law. The power or duty of managing the property of him who, either on account of infancy or some defect of mind or body, cannot manage his own affairs.