Category: C

In the civil law. A personal action which Is instituted to compel payment, or the doing some other thing which Is purely civil.

Lat. In old Scotch law. A making clear; the purging or clearing (clenging) of an assise. Skene.

In Manx law. The keys of the Island of Man, or twelve persons to whom all ambiguous and weighty causes are referred

In old Scotch practice. A solemn form of words prescribed by law, and used in criminal cases, as in pleas of wrong and unlaw.

In ecclesiastical law. A person in holy orders; a clergyman; an individual attached to the ecclesiastical state, and who has the clerical tousure. See 4 Bl. Comm. 366, 307.

In the Roman law. A client or dependent. One who depended upon another as his patron or protector, adviser BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

A valley. Also an allowance for the turn of the scale, on buying goods wholesale by weight.

In medical jurisprudence. A method of serum-diagnosis of insanity from hteniolysis (breaking up of the red corpuscles of the blood) by injections of the venom of cobras or other serpents. Tills test

A testamentary disposition subsequent to a will, and by which the will is altered, explained, added to, subtracted from, or confirmed by way of republication, but in no case totally revoked. Lamb

In old practice. That part of a fine in which the defendant acknowledged that the land in question was the right of the complainant. From this the fine itself derived its name,

By the side; at the side; attached upon the side. Not lineal, but upon a parallel or diverging line. Additional or auxiliary; supplementary; cooperating

Lat. In the civil law. A co-legatee. Inst. 2, 20, 8.

In Saxon and old English law. An account or calculation.

A small or narrow valley.

Courtesy; complaisance; respect; a willingness to grant a privilege, not as a matter of right, but out of deference and good will

Intercourse by way of trade and traffic between different peoples or states and the citizens or inhabitants thereof, including not only the purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities, but also the instrumentalities

A warrant or authority or letters patent, issuing from the government, or one of its departments, or a court, empowering a person or persons named to do certain acts, or to exercise

See MAGISTRATE.

The several modes or instruments of conveyance established or authorized by the law of England. Called “common” because thereby every man’s estate is assured to him. 2 Bl. Comm. 294. The legal

In English law. Persons having a right of common. So called because they have a right to pasture on the waste, in common with the lord. 2 H. Bl. 8S9