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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

CURIA MILITUM

A court so called, anciently held at Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight. Cowell.

CURRENT PRICE

This term means the same as “market value.” Cases of Champagne, 23 Fed. Cas. 11 OS.

CURTILLIUM

A curtilage; the area or space within the inclosure of a dwellinghouse. Spelman.

CUTCHERRY

In Hindu law. Corrupted from Kachari. A court; a hall; an office; the place where any public business is transacted.

CZAR

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.

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