A Dictionary of Law

Asmall association for the purpose of intrigue; an intrigue. ‘This name was given to that ministry in the reign of Charles II. formed by Clifford, Asiley, Buckingham, Arlington, an

In French commercial law. A factor or broker.

Pertaining to a horse. It was a feudal tenure of lands, the tenant furnishing a horseman suitably equipped in time of war, or when the lord had occasion for his service.

In Spanish law. An allotment of land acquired by conquest, to a horse soldier, it was a strip one hundred feet wide by two hundred feet deep. The term has been sometimes used in th

In Spanishlaw. A knight. So called on aecount of its being more honorable to go on horseback (& cabatlo) than on any other beast.

‘The advisory board or council of a king or other chiefexecutive. In the government of the United States the cabinet is composed of the secreiary of state, the secretary of the tre

In English law. A private and confidential assembly of the most considerable ministers of state, to concert measures for the administration of pub

The great rope of a ship, to which the anchor is fastened.

Brush-wood, or more properly windfall-wood.

or CACHERELLAS. An inferior bailiff, or catehpoll. Jacob.

LETTRES D3. Letters issued and signed by the kings of France, and cuuntersigned by a secretary of state, authorluing the imprisonment of a person. Albolished during the revolution

In Spanish-American Jaw. Property entailed on the cactques, or heads of [Indian villages, and their descendants. Schm. Civil Law, 309.

In spanish law. An official statement of the quantity and value of teal property in any district, made for the purpose uf justly apportioning the taxes payable on such property. 12

In French law. An official statement of the quantity and value of realty made for purposes of taxation; same as cadastre, (g. v.)

Lat. To end; ecase; fail, Asin the phrases eadit actio, (or breve, ) the action (or writ) fails; cadit assisa, the assise abates; eadit quastiv, the discussion ends, there is no ro

In the United States laws, students in the military academy at West Point are styled “cadets;” students in the naval academy at Annapolis, “cadet midshipmen.” Rey. St. §§ 1309, 151

The nameof a Turkish civil magistrais.

I falls, abates, fails, ends, ceases. Seo CADERE,

In the civil law. Property of an inheritable quality; property such us deecends to an heir. Aliso the lapse of a testamentary disposition or legacy. Also an escheat; escheated prop

Relating to or of the

Inold French law. A list of grievances prepared for deputies in the statesgeneral. A petition for the redress of grieyunces enumerated.

CALCHA. A causeway, or common hard-way, maintained and repaired with stones and rubbish.

In old French law. A punish. ment of sailors, resembling the modern “ keelhauling.”

In old law. A right to take fuel yearly. Cowell.

The established order of the division of time into years, montlis,

One of the months of the year as enumerated in the calendar, — January, February, March, ete.,— without reference fo the number of days it may contain; as distinguished from a luna

In practice. A list of the causes instituted in the particular court, and now ready for trial, drawn up by the clerk shertly before the beginning of the term, exhibiting the titles

In English practice. A list kept by the sheriffs containing the names of all the prisoners in their custody, with the several judgments against each in the margin. Staundef. P.C. 1

Among the Romans the first day of every month, being spoken of by itself, or the very day of the new moon, which usually happen together. And if pride, the day before, be added to

GREEK. <A metaphorical expression for a time never likely to arrive.

1. In English law. The election of students to the degree of barrister at law, hence the ceremony or epoch of election, and the number of persons elected. 2. In conveyancing. A vis

In Scotch practice. See this described in Bell, Dict.

Successively drawing out of a box into which they have been previously put the names of the jurors on the panels annexed to the nisi prius rec. ord, and calling them over in the or

When a prisoner has been found: guilty on an indictment, the clerk of the court addresses him and calls upon him to say why judgment should not be passed upon him.

Acallot tha names of all the members of a legislative body, made by the clerk in pursuance of a resolution requiring the attendance of meimbers. The names of absentees being thus a

In Seotch law. A gift to the head of a clan, ag an acknowledgment for protection and maintenance.

In the civil law. Calumny, malice, or ill design; a false accusation; a malieions prosecution, In the old common law. A claim, demand, challenge to jurors.

In the civil law. One who accused another of a crime without cause; one who brought a false accusation. Cod. 9, 46.

In the old canon law. An oath similar to the calumniae jusjurandum, (q. v.)

The oath of calumny. An oath imposed upon the parties to a suit that they did not sue or defend with the intention of calumniating, (ealumniandt animo,) 7. e., with a malicious des

Defamation; slander; false accusation of a crime or offense. “There was a word called ‘calumny’ in the civil law, which signified an unjust prosecution or defense of a suit, and th

(or Kahl,) John. Lexicon juridicum juris Caesarei, simul et canonici, feudalis, item, civilis, criminalis, theoretici ac practici, et in schola et in foro usitatarum. 1 vol. folio.

In Spanish law. A treasury. Las Partidas, pt. 6, tit. 3, 1. 2. The exchequer. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 3, cy 1.

In Spanish law. Exchange. Sehm. Civil Law, 148.

Champerty; from campus, a field, and partis, divided. Spel- CAMPBELL’s (LORD) ACTS

In mercantile law. A person skilled in exchanges; one who trades in promissory notes and bills of exchange.

In the civil law. Change or exchange, A term applied indifferently to the exchange of land, money, or debts. Cambium reale or munvate was the term generally used to denote the tech

In old English law. A chamber, room, or apartment; a judge's chamber; a treasury; a chest or coffer. Also, 2 stipend payable from vassal to lord; an annuity.

The science of finance or public revenue, comprehending the means of raising and disposing of it.

In old English law. A. chamber of the king; a place of peculiar privileges especially in a commercial point of view.

A chamberlain; a keeper of the public money; a treasurer. Also a bailiff or receiver.

Theold name of the exchequer chamber, (g. 0.)

Thestarchamber, (gq. 2.)

In Spanish law. A road or highway. Jas Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 2, 1. 6.

In old European law. A bell. Spelman.

A small handbell used in the ceremonies of the Romish church; and, among Protestants, by sextons, parish clerks, and criers. Cowell.

CAMPANILE. <A belfry, bell tower, or steeple; a place where bells are hung. Spelman; Townsh. Pl. 191, 213.

A share; a champertor’s share; a champertons division or sharing of land.

‘A corn-field: a field of grain. Blount; Cowell; Jacob,

Inold Englishlaw. The fighting of two champions or combatants in the field; the judicial combat, or dueliuin. 3 Inst, 221.

In old European law. An assembly of the people; so called from being anciently held in the open air, in sume plain capable of containing a large number of persons, In feudal and ol

Lat. The field of May. An anniversary assembly of the Saxons, held on May-day, when they confederated for the defense of the kingdom against all its enemies.

The field of March. See CHAMP DE Maks.

Inold Englishlaw. An exchanger. Cambiatores monete, exchangers of money; money-changers.

A distance in the measure of ground.

An artificial ditch or trench in the earth, for confining water to a defined channel, to be used for purposes of transportation. The meaning of this word, when applied to artificia

Chancery; the court of chancery. Curia cancellaria is also used in the same sense. See 4 Bl. Comm. 46; Cowell. Cancellarii Anglice diguitas est, ut secundus a rege in regno habetur

A chancellor; a scrivener, or notary. A janitor, or one who stood at the door of the court and was accustomed te carry out the commands of the judges.

Theact of crossing out a writing. The manual operation of tearing or destroying 4 written instrument. 1 Eq. Cas, Abr. 409; Rob. Wills, 367, n. According to Bartolus, an expunging o

Inold English law. A cancelling. Bract, 398b.

The rails or lattice work or balusters inclosing the bar of a court of justice or the communion table. Also the lines drawn on the face of a will or other writing, with the intenti

<A person who offers himself, or is presented bv others, to be elected to an ofiice. Derived from the Latin candidus, (white,) because in Rome it was the custom for those who sough

A festival in honor of the purification of the Virgin Mary, being forty days after her miraculous delivery. At this festival, formerly, the Protestants went, and the Papists now go

Inold records. A trial by hot iron, formerly used in England. Whishaw.

Pertaining to, or inconformity to, the canons of the church.

That duty which a clergyman owes to the bishop who ordained him, to the bishop in whose divcese le is beneticed, and also to the metropolitan of such bishop. Wharton.

In old Englishlaw, A canon. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 69, § 2.

One versed and skilled in the canon law; a professor of ecclesiastical law,

Lat. In ecclesiastical records. A book wherein the religious of every greater convent liad a fair transcript of the rules of their order, fre-

The legal rules by whieh inheritances ara regulated, and according to which estates are transmitted by descent from the ancestor to the heir,

The legal rules by which inheritances are regulated, and according to which ostates are transmitted by descent from the ancestor to the heir, 2 Bl. Comm, 208.

In the civil law. A method of dividing property held in common by two or more juint owners. See 9 Mart. (La.) $7.

or CANTLE. <A lump, or that which is added above measure; also a piece of anything, as “cantel of bread,” or H the like. Blount.

ARCHBISHOP OF. In English ecclesiastical law. The’ primate of all Hingland; the chief ecclesiastical dignitary in the church. His customary privilege is tocrown the kings and queen

A district comprising a huniired villages; a hundred. A term used Rt

Im feudal law. <A species of duty or tribute payable from tenant to lord, usually consisting of produce of the land.

The act of examining and counting the returns of yotes cast ata public election.

Legal capacity is the attribute of a person whocan acquire new rights, or transfer rights, or assume duties, according to the mere dictates of his own will, as manifested in jurist

Lat. Capable of committing crime, or capable of criminal intent. The phrase describes the condition of one who has suflicient intelligence and comprehension to be held criminally r

Competent to transact affairs; having business capacity.

In English practice. A judicial writ touching a plea of lands or tenements, ‘divided into cape magnum, or the grand cape, which lay before appearance to summon the tenant to answer

A species of cape magnum. Sev CAPE.

In old records. A box, cabinet, or repository in which were preserved the relies of martyrs. Spelman. A small building in which relics were preserved; an oratory or chapel. Id.

Vessels of war owned by private persons, and different from ordinary privateers only in size, being smaller. Beawes, Lex Merc. 230.

Lat. “That you take.” The general name for several species of writs, the common characteristic of which is thal they require the officer to take the body of the defendant into cust

In the action of aceouns render, after judgment of quod computet, ifthe defendant refuses to appear personally before the auditors and make his account, a writ by this name may iss

in practice. A judicial writ, (usually simply termed a “capius,”) by which actions at law were frequently commenced; and which commands the sheriff to take the defendant, and him s

A writ of execution issuable in England against a

Writ for taking a moderate

A thing which is stolen, or the value of it. Blount,