Category: C

A coroner, (q. v.) Spelman

An artificial person or legal entity created by or under the authority of the laws of a state or nation, composed, in some rare instances, of a single person and his successors,

In old English law. A clerk belonging to the staple, to write and record the bargains of merchants there made

In feudal law. A custom or tribute

In old English law. A cottage

By the Act 30 & 31 Vict. c. 105, power is given for the crown to grant licenses for the formation of councils of conciliation and arbitration, consisting of a certain number

A species of instrument of defeasance common in the civil law. It is executed by a party who has taken a deed of property. absolute on its face, but intended as security

Advocates, or serjeants at law, whom a man retains to defend bis cause and speak for him in court, for their fees. 1 Inst. 17.

A term used in surveying, meaning the direction of a line with reference to a meridian.

The name of certain English courts created by commission under the great seal pursuant to the statute of sewers, (23 Hen. VIII. c. 5.)

A court established by statute 43 Eliz. c. 12, to determine in a summary way all causes between merchants, concerning policies of insurance. Crabb, Eng. Law, 503.

in French law, is the deposit (“margin”) made by the client in the hands of the broker, either of a sum of money or of securities, in order to guaranty the broker

The condition or state of a married woman. Sometimes used elliptic- | ally to describe the legal disability arising from a state of coverture. Osborn v. Horlne, 19 111. 124; Roberts v.

To bring into being; to cause to exist; to produce; as, to create a trust in lands, to create a corporation. Edwards v. Bibb, 54 Ala. 481; McClellan v. McClellan, 65 lie.

In Saxon law. To put out an eye; which had a pecuniary punishment of fifty shillings annexed to it

The crime or offense of theft.

One who decoys and plunders sailors under cover of harboring them. Wharton.

In English law. Debts due to the crown, which are put, by various statutes, upon a different footing from those due to a subject.

The hue and cry raised by the people in ancient times, where a felony had been committed and the constable was absent.

The risk lies upon the owner of the subject. Tray. Lat. Max. 114.