Category: C

In old English law. The lord’s court, house,or hall, where all the tenants met at the time of keeping court. Cowell.

An open, running, or unsettled account between two parties. Tucker v. Quimby, 37 Iowa. l’J; Franklin v. Camp, 1 N. J. Law, 190; Wilson v. Calvert, 18 Ala. 274.

The estate to which by common law a man is entitled, on the death of his wife, in the lands or tenements of which she was seised iu possession in fee-simple or

A custom of intestacy in the province of York similar to that of London. Abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 94.

In English ecclesiastical law. The person to whom a vacant see or abbey was given by the king, as supreme lord. His office was, as steward of the goods and profits, to

A breaking into a church, Blount

With satchel and purse. A phrase in old Scotch law.

In the civil law. A person who is appointed to take care of anything for another. A guardian. One appointed to take care of the state of a minor above a certain

A phrase used in old Scotch records to show that the court was opened in due and lawful manner.

Ordinary, regular, and continuing expenditures for the maintenance of property, the carrying on of an ollioe, municipal government, etc. Sheldon v. Purdy, 17 Wash. 135, 49 Pac. 228; State v. Board of

The name of King Edward the Confessor’s sword. It is said that the point of it was broken, as an emblem of mercy. (Mat. Par. in Hen. III.) Wharton.

According to custom or usage; founded on, or growing out of, or dependent on, a custom, (q. v.)

In old English law. Guardian, warden, or keeper of the land.

(From c-yric, church, and sceat, a tribute.) In Saxon law. A tribute or payment due to the church. Cowell.

With the appurtenances. Bract, fol. 736.

Guardian for the suit. In English law, the corresponding phrase is “guardian ad litem.”

In old English law. The great court; one of the ancient names of parliament.

This phrase means gold or silver, or something equivalent thereto, and convertible at pleasure into coined money. Bull v. Bank. 123 U. S. 105, 8 Sup. Ct. 02. 31 L. Ed. 97;

The enclosed space of ground and buildings immediately surrounding a dwelling-house. In its most comprehensive and proper legal signification, it includes all that space of ground and buildings thereon which is usually

In English law. A variety of copyhold estate, the evidences of the title to which are to be found upon the court rolls; the entries declaring the holding to be according to