Category: C

In old English law. Chief baron. Capitalis barn scaccurii domini rents, chid’ baron of the exchequer. Townsh. PI. 211.

In Roman law, A diminishing or abridgment of personality. Tills was a loss or curtailment of a man’s status or aggregate of legal attributes and qualifications, following upon certain changes in his

Prisoners of war. As in the goods of an enemy, so also in his person, a sort of qualified property may be acquired, by taking him a prisoner of war, at least

A gaol; a prison.

In mercantile law. The load or lading of a vessel; goods and merchandise put on board a ship to be carried to a certain port. The lading or freight of a ship;

Carriers are either common or private. Private carriers are persons who undertake for the transportation in a particular instance only, not making it their vocation, nor holding themselves out to the public

A place where papers or records are kept

Ready money; whatever can be used as money without being converted into another form; that which circulates as money, including bank-bills. Hooper v. Flood, 54 Cal. 221; Dazet v. Landry, 21 Nev.

Overthrown, worsted, or defeated in an action.

That which happens accidentally, or is brought about by causes unknown ; fortuitous; the result of chance. Lewis v. Lofley, 92 Ga. 804, 19 S. El 57.

Goods and chattels. See CATALLA

Highroads or ways pitched with flint or other stones

A remote or mediate cause; a cause operating indirectly by the intervention of other causes.

In Scotch law, and in admiralty law. Surety ; security; bail; an undertaking by way of surety. 6 Mod. 1G2. See CAUTIO

To yield up ; to assign ; to grant. Generally used to designate the transfer of territory from one government to another. Goetz v. United States (C. C.) 103 Fed. 72; Baltimore

In old English law. Farmers, or such persons as were liable to pay a census, (tax.) Blount; Cowell. OENSERE 181 CENTRAL OFFICE

The principal inhabitants of a ccntena, or district composed of different villages, originally in number a hundred, but afterwards only called by that name

Ascertained; precise; identified; definitive; clearly known; unambiguous ; or, in law, capable of being identified or made known, without liability to mistake or ambiguity, from data already given. Cooper v. Bigly, 13

That is certain which can be rendered certain. 9 Coke, 47; Broom, Max. 623

In Scotch law. An assignee. Bell.