Category: C

In old Scotch law. A species of pledge or cautioner, (ScotticG, back boryh,) used in cases of the replevin of persons from one man’s court to another’s. Skene.

Various terms or phrases may be denoted by this abbreviation ; such as circuit court, (or city or county court;) criminal cases, (or crown or civil or chancery cases;) civil code; chief

In Spanish-American law. Property entailed on the caciques, or heads of Indian villages, and their descendants. Sehm. Civil Law, 309.

An English statute for enabling the court of chancery to award damages. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 27.

In Scotch law. A gift to the head of a clan, as an acknowledgment for protection and maintenance.

The science of finance or public revenue, comprehending the means of raising and disposing of it

In English law. A festival appointed by the church to be observed on the second day of February in every year, in honor of the purification of the Virgin Mary, being forty

Competent to transact affairs; having business capacity.

In old English law. Chief, principal; at the head. A term applied to persons, places, judicial proceedings, and some kinds of property.

In the civil law. One who had suffered capitis diminutio, one who lost status or legal attributes. See Dig. 4, 5.

In practice. That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority it is taken, found, or executed. State v. Sutton, 5 N.

In French law. An instrument of punishment, somewhat resembling a pillory. It sometimes signifies the punishment itself. Biret, Vocab.

In old English law. To charge. Spelman.

One who undertakes to transport persons or property from place to place, by any means of conveyance, and with or without compensation.

Carriers who transport goods and merchandise in carts, usually for short distances, for hire.

A professional name for the aggregate of reported cases as forming a body of jurisprudence; or for the law of a particular subject as evidenced or formed by the adjudged cases ;

To cast away a ship is to do such an act upon or in regard to it as causes it to perish or be lost, so as to be irrecoverable by ordinary

A writ of entry framed under the provisions of the statute of Gloucester, (0 Edw. I.,) c. 7, which lay for the benefit of the reversioner when a tenant in dower aliened

A chattel. Most frequently used in the plural form, catalla, (q. v.)

A land’s end, or the bottom of a ridge in arable land. Cowell