Category: C

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

A guardian can make the estate of an existing heir under his guardianship better, not worse.

In old English law. A cyrographer; an officer of the banc- us, or court of common bench. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 30.