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.

Property is in the custody of the law when it has been lawfully taken by authority of legal process, and remains in the possession of a public officer (as, a sheriff) or

The statute 16 & 17 Vict. c. 107. which has been frequently amended. See 2 Steph. Comm. 503.

One who steals by the method of cutting purses; a common practice when men wore their purses at their girdles, as was once the custom. Wharton.

The title of the eldest son of the czar and czarina.

The expression of the monopoly of Oxford, Cambridge, and the royal printers to publish the Bible.

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

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 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

A court of the United States, created by act of congress in 1909, to hear and determine appeals from the decisions of the revenue officers in the Imposition and collection of customs-duties.

In old English law. An officer in the exchequer, to whom it belonged to provide wood for the tallies, and to cut the sum paid upon them, etc.

Compensatory damages are such as will compensate the injured party for the injury sustained, and nothing more; such as will simply make good or replace the loss caused by the wrong or