Category: C

In the civil law. The accessions, appurtenances, or fmits of a thing; comprehending all that the claimant of a principal thing can demand from a defendant in addition thereto, and especially what

Security, which tenants for life give, to preserve the property rented free from waste and injury. Ersk. Inst. 2, 9, 59.

Payment or forfeiture of an animal. An ancient species of forfeiture

In old English law. A farm, or house and land let at a standing rent. Cowell.

Petty judges, under-sheriffs of counties, that had rule of a hundred, (ccntena,) and judged smaller matters among them. 1 Vent 211.

In old English law. Head money or common fine. Money paid yearly by the residents of several manors to the lords thereof, for the certain keeping of the leet, (pro eerto Ictw;)

Lat (To be Informed of, to be made certain in regard to.) The name of a writ issued by a superior court directing an inferior court to send up to the former

The act of ceding; a yielding or giving up; surrender; relinquishment of property or rights. In the civil law. An assignment. The act by which a party transfers property to another. The

In English parliamentary practice. In the commons, this officer, always a member, is elected by the house on the assembling of every new parliament. When the house is in committee on bills

(Lat. Campus Mali.) The field or assembly of May. The national assembly of the Franks, held in the month of May

1. An alteration; substitution of one tiling for another. This word does not connote either improvement or deterioration as a result. In this respect it differs from amendment, which, in law, always

In general. An incumbrance, lien, or burden; an obligation or duty; a liability; an accusation. Darling v. Rogers, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 491. In contracts. An obligation, binding upon him who enters

A collection of the laws of the forest, made in the 9th Hen. III. and said to have been originally a part of Magna Charta.

(For returning the charters.) An ancient writ which lay against one who had charters of feoffment intrusted to his keeping and refused to deliver them. Reg. Orig. 159.

In English law. A list or book, containing the names of such as are attendants on, or in the pay of. the queen or other great personages, as their household servants.

The presiding judge of the English court of exchequer; answering to tlie chief justice of other courts. ‘?> 111. Comm. 44; 3 Steph. Comm. 101

In English law. The stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds is a nominal otlice in the gift of the crown, usually accepted by members of the house of commons desirous of vacating their

Fr. A thing; an article of property. A chose is a chattel personal, (Williams, Pers. Prop. 4,) and is either in possession or in actiou. See the following titles.

An old English law term for the stocks, an instrument in which the wrists or ankles of petty offenders were confined.

In Anglo-Saxon and old English law q church