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CURRENT YEAR

The vear now running. Doe v. Dobcll, 1 Adol. & Eh 800; Clark v. Lancaster County, 69 Neb. 717, 96 N. W. 593.

CUSTOMS

This term is usually applied to those taxes which are payable upon goods and merchandise imported or exported. Story, Const.

CUTTER OF THE TALLIES

In old English law. An officer in the exchequer, to whom it belonged to provide wood for the tallies, and to cut the sum paid upon them, etc.

CONTINGENT DAMAGES

Where a demurrer has been filed to one or more counts in a declaration, and its consideration is postponed, and meanwhile other counts in the same declaration, not demurred to, are taken

CUMULATIVE PUNISHMENT

An increased punishment inflicted for a second or third conviction of the same offense, under the statutes relating to habitual criminals. State v. Hambly, 12G N. C. 10G6, 35 S. E. 614.

CURE OF SOULS

In ecclesiastical law. The ecclesiastical or spiritual charge of a parish, including the usual and regular duties of a minister in charge. State v. Bray, 35 N. C. 290.

CURIA REGIS

The king’s court. A term applied to the aula regis, the bancus, or communis bancus, and the iter or eyre, as being courts of the king, but especially to the aula regis,

CURRICULUM

The year; of the course of a year; the set of studies for a particular period, appointed by a university.

CUSTODES

In Roman law. Guard- dians; observers; inspectors. Persons who acted as inspectors of elections, and who counted the votes given. Tayl. Civil Law, 193. In old English law. keepers; guardians; conservators.

CUSTOS

Lat. A custodian, guard, keeper, or warden; a magistrate.

CUTWAL, KATWAL

The chief officer of police or superintendent of markets in a large town or city in India.

CONTINUING DAMAGES

are such as accrue from the same injury, or from the repetition of similar acts, between two specified periods of time.

CU3VTEY-CUNTEY

In old English law. A kind of trial, as appears from Bract lib. 4, tract 3, ca. 18, and tract 4, ca. 2, where it seems to mean, one by the ordinary

CURFEW

An Institution supposed to have been introduced into England by order of William the Conqueror, which consisted in the ringing of a bell or bells at eight o’clock at night, at which

CURIA ADVISARI VULT L LAT

The court will advise; the court will consider. A phrase frequently found in the reports, signifying the resolution of the court to suspend judgment in a cause, after the argument until they

CURRIT QUATUOR PEDIBUS L LAT

It runs upon four feet; or, as sometimes expressed, it runs upon all fours. A phrase used iu arguments to signify the entire and exact application of a case quoted. “It does

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