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CURIA PALATII

The palace court. It was abolished by 12 & 13 Vict, c. 101.

CURRENT VALUE

The current value of imported commodities is their common market price at the place of exportation, without reference to the price actually paid by the importer. Tappan v. U. S

CURTIS

A garden; a space about a house; a house, or manor; a court, or palace; a court of justice; a nobleman’s residence. Spelman.

CZARINA

The title of the empress of Russia.

CUMULATIVE

Additional; heaping up; Increasing; forming an aggregate. The word signifies that two things are to be added together, instead of one being a repetition or in substitution of the other. People v.

CURATRIX

A woman who has been appointed to the office of curator; a female guardian. Cross’ Curatrlx v. Cross’ Legatees, 4 Giat. (Va.) 257.

CNRIA PEN- TICIARNM

A court held by the sheriff of Chester, in a place there called the “Pendice” or “Pentice;” probably it was so called from being originally held under a pent-house, or open shed

CURRENT WAGES

Such as are paid periodically, or from time to time as the services are rendered or the work is performed ; more particularly, wages for the current period, hence not including such

CUSSORE

A term used in Hiiulostan for the discount or allowance made in the exchange of rupees, in contradistinction to ball a, which is the sum deducted. Enc. Loud.

CUTPURSE

One who steals by the method of cutting purses; a common practice when men wore their purses at their girdles, as was once the custom. Wharton.

CZAROWITZ

The title of the eldest son of the czar and czarina.

CURE BY VERDICT

The rectification or rendering nugatory of a defect in the pleadings by the rendition of a verdict; the court will presume, after a verdict, that the particular thing omitted or defectively stated

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.

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