Category: C

The county court, (q. v.)

Coined money and such bank-notes or other paper money as are authorized by law aud do in fact circulate from hand to hand as the medium of exchange. Griswold v. Hepburn, 2

An inferior officer of the papal court.

A usage or practice of the people, which, by common adoption and acquiescence. and by long and unvarying habit, has become compulsory, and has acquired the force of a law with respect

Keeper of the rolls. An officer in England who has the custody of the rolls or records of the sessions of the peace, and also of the commission of the peace itself.

As near as [possible.] The rule of cy-prcs is a rule for the construction of instrumeuts in equity, by which the intention of the party is carried out as near as may

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.

A court held by the lord of the manor of Gravesend for the better management of barges and boats plying on the river Thames between Gravesend and Windsor, and also at Gravesend

Running; now in transit; whatever is at present in course of passage; as “the current month.” When applied to money, it means “lawful;” current money is equivalent to lawful money. Wharton v.

The practice of the court is the law of the court.

A system of customs or rules relative to bills of exchange, partnership, and other mercantile matters, and which, under the name of the “lex mercatoria,” or “law-merchant,” has been ingrafted into and

In English ecclesiastical law. Keeper of the spiritualities. lie who exercises the spiritual jurisdiction of a diocese during the vacancy of the see. Cowell.

In Saxon law. A church

Dig. 50, 17, 154. When both parties are in fault the plaintiff must always fail,and the cause of the person in possession be preferred.

Intended to cure (that is, to obviate the ordinary legal effects or consequences of) defects, errors, omissions, or irregularities. Applied particularly to statutes, a “curative act” being a retrospective law passed in

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.