Category: C

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.

One whose occupation it is, as the agent of others, to arrange entries and other custom-house papers, or transact business, at any port of entry, relating to the importation or exportation of

The guardian of morals. The court of queen’s bench has been so styled. 4 Steph. Comm. 377.

A mulct anciently paid by one who killed another, to the kindred of the deceased. Spelman.

See CALENDAR.

Where two things repugnant to each other are found in a will, the last shall stand. Co. Litt. 1126; Shep. Touch. 451; Broom, Max. 5S3.

An increased punishment inflicted for a second or third conviction of the same offense, under the statutes relating to habitual criminals. State v. Hambly, 12G N. C. 10G6, 35 S. E. 614.

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.

According to custom or usage; founded on, or growing out of, or dependent on, a custom, (q. v.)

In old English law. Keeper of the pleas of the crown. Bract fol. 146. Cowell supposes this office to have been the same with the custos rotulorum. But it seems rather to

That kind of punishment used by the ancients, and still used by the Chinese, called by Staunton the “wooden collar,” by which the neck of the malefactor Is bent or weighed down.

See CLEAR.