Category: C

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.

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.

Live cattle. Blount.

Lat. By the head. Tenure in capite was an ancient feudal tenure, whereby a man held lands of the king immediately. It was of two sorts,

In old English law and practice. A taking or seizure ; arrest; receiving; holding of court.

In old English law. A head of land; a headland. Cowell.