Culpable

Censurable; criminal. See Culpa. Applied to an omission to preserve the means of enforcing a right, " censurable " is more nearly an equivalent than ''criminal."'' See Negligence, Culpable.

CULTIVATIOTf.

See Agriculture; Betterment; Crop; Improve. Being in a state of cultivation is the converse of being in a state of nature. Whenever lands have been wrought with a view to the production of a crop they Hiust be considered as becoming and continuing in " a state of cultivation " until abandoned for every purpose of agriculture and designedly permitted to revert to a condition similar to the original one." " Fit for cultivation " refers to that condition of soil which will enable a farmer, with a reasonable amount of skill, to raise regularly and annually by tillage grain or other staple crops.^