CUSTUHA ANTIQUA SIVE MAGNA
(Lat. Ancient or great duties.) The duties on wool, sheep-skin, or wool-pelts and leather exported were so called, and were payable by every merchant, stranger as well as native, with the exception
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(Lat. Ancient or great duties.) The duties on wool, sheep-skin, or wool-pelts and leather exported were so called, and were payable by every merchant, stranger as well as native, with the exception
A chirograph, (which see.)
4 Kent, Comm. 403. When that which I do is of no effect as 1 do it, it shall have as much effect as it can; i.e., in some other way.
Surveyors of the highways.
A court so called, anciently held at Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight. Cowell.
This term means the same as “market value.” Cases of Champagne, 23 Fed. Cas. 11 OS.
A curtilage; the area or space within the inclosure of a dwellinghouse. Spelman.
Such as are due by ancient custom or prescription only.
In Hindu law. Corrupted from Kachari. A court; a hall; an office; the place where any public business is transacted.
The title of the emperor of Russia, first assumed by Basil, the son of Basilides, under whom the Russian power began to appear, about 1740.
Lat. With the will annexed. A term applied to administration granted where a testator makes an incomplete will, without naming any executors, or where he names incapable persons, or where the executors
The office of a curator. Curatorship differs from tutorship, (q. v.,) in this; that the latter is instituted for the protection of property in the first place, and, secondly, of the person;
The palace court. It was abolished by 12 & 13 Vict, c. 101.
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
A garden; a space about a house; a house, or manor; a court, or palace; a court of justice; a nobleman’s residence. Spelman.
Tenants holding by custom of the manor.
A knowing or skillful counsellor
The title of the empress of Russia.
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.
A woman who has been appointed to the office of curator; a female guardian. Cross’ Curatrlx v. Cross’ Legatees, 4 Giat. (Va.) 257.