A Dictionary of Law

Neglect; a ceasing from, or omission todo, a thing. 3 Bl. Comm. 282. The determination of an estate. 1 Coke, 84; 4 Kent, Comm. 33, 90, 105, 295. ‘The “cesser” of a term, annuity, o

(Let execution stay.} In practice. A stay of execution; or an order for such stay; the entry of such stay on record. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1104.

(Let process stay.) <A stay of proceedings entered on the record.

Lat. <A cession; a giving up, or relinguishment; a surrender; an assignment.

In Roman law. Cession of goods. A surrender, relinquishment, or assignment of all his property and effects made by an insolvent debtor for the benefitofhis creditors. The effect of

In Romanlaw. A fictitious suit, in which the person who wss to acquire the thing claimed (vindicaliat) the thing as his own, the person who was to transfer it acknowledged the just

The act of cading; a yielding or giving up; surrender; relinquishment of property or rights. In the civil law. Anassignment. The act by which a party transfers property to another.

In Scotch law. Anassignee, Bell.

One who gives up hig estate to be divided among hia creditors,

In French law. The surrender which a debtor makes is of two kinds, either voluntary or compulsory, (Judiciatre,) corresponding very nearly to Hquidation by arrangementand bankrupte

The surrender of property; the relinquishment that a debtor makes of all his property to his creditors, when he finds himself unable to pay his debts. Civil Code La. art. 2170.

An assessment, or tax.

Ons who ceases or neglects so long to performa duty that he thereby ineurs the danyer of the law. O. N. B. 1386.

L Fr. Areceiver; a bailiff. Kelham.

Fr. Thatis to say, or to-wit. Generally written as one word, cestascavoir, cestascuvotre. Crest le crime qui fait la honte, ef non pas Vechafaud. It is the offense which G2 causes

He whose life is the measure of the duration of an estate. The person for whose life any lands, tenements, or hereditaments are held.

CHSTUY. He, Used fre quently in composition in law French phrases.

He who has a right to a beneficial interest in and out of an estate the legal title to which is vested in another. 2 Washb. Real Prop. 163. The person who possesses the equitable r

He for whose use and benefit lands or tenements are held by another, The cestut gue use has tac right to receive the profits and benefits of the estate, but the legal title and pos

Lat. In the civil law. a A manager or administrator. Calvin.

L. Fr. A chase or hunting ground,

Inold English law. A station of game, more extended than a park, and less than a forest; also the liberty of chasing or hunting within a certain district; also the way through whic

lL, Fr. That may be chased or huntect.

To drive, compel, or oblige; also to chase or hunt.

A horse for the chase, or a hound, dog, or courser.

An ancient term for goods, wares, and merchandise.

Traffic; the practice of buying and selling.

An officer in the English chancery whose duty was to fit the wax to v3al the writs, commissions, and other instruments thence issuing. The office was abolished by St. 15 & 16 Vict.

<A measure used by engineers and surveyors, being twenty-two yards in length,

A name given to the presiding officer of an assembly, public meeting, convention, deliberative or legislative body, board of directors, committee, ete. CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES OF

CHALDHERN, or CHAL-

or CAULKING. The process or method of stopping the seams in a ship or a vessel.

1. To object or except to; to prefer objections to a person, right, or instrnment; to formally call into question the capability of a person for a particular function, or the exist

PRINCIPAL. Such as ig made for acause whicli when substantiated is of itself sufiicient evidence of bias in favor of oragainst the party challenging. Cao. Litt. 1566. See 8 Bl. Com

A challenge to a juror for which some cause or reason isalleged. Termes dela Ley; 4 Bl. Comm. 353. Thus distinguished from a peremptory challenge.

A privilege allowed to a prisoner in criminal cause. Termes de la Ley; 4 Bl. Comm, 353; Co. Litt. 156.

A summons or invitation, given by one person to another, to engage in a personal combat; a request to fightaduel, <A criminal) offense. See Steph. Crim. Dig. 40; 8 East, 581; 6 Bla

An exception fo the whole panel in which the jury are arrayed, or seb in order by the sheriff in his relurn, upon account of partiality, or sume default in the sheriff, coroner, or

Is where the party has no principal challenge, but objects only some probable circumstances of suspicion, ag acquaintance, and the like, the validity of which must be leit to the d

A challenge made separately to an individual juror; a8 distinguished Irom a challenge to the array.

A room or apartment in a house. A private repository of money; a treasury. Sometimes used to designate a court, a commission, or an association of persons habitually mveting togeth

WIDOW’S. A portion of the effects of a deceased person, reserved for the use of his widow, and consisting of her apparel, and the furniture of ber ed-chamber, is called in London t

Keeper of the chamber. Originally the chamberlain was the D keeper of the treasure chamber (camera) of the prince or state; otherwise called “treasurer,” Cowell. The name of severa

In French law. A sovereign court, of great antiquity, in France, which took cognizance of and registered the accounis of the kinw’s revenue; nearly the same as the English court of

An association (which may or may not be incorporated) comprising the principal merchants, manufacturers, and tracers of a city, designed for convenience in buying, selling, and ex-

In practice. The pri- G vate room or olfice of a judge; any place in which a judge heara motions, signs papers, or does other bustness pertaining to his office, when he is not hold

In old English flaw. Change, or exchange. Bract. fols. 117, 118.

A name anelentiy given to St. Edward’s chamber, called the “Painted Chamber,” destroyed by fre with the houses of parliament. L

In French law. The grant of a piece of land by the owner to another, on condition that the latter would deliver to him a portion of thecrops. 18 Toullier, n, 182. vi

(Lat. Campus Matt.) The field or assembly of May. The national assembly of the Frauks, held in the month of May. The national assembly of the Franks, held in the month of March, in

In old English law. A share or division of land; champerty. In old Scotch law. A gift or bribe, taken by any great man or judge from any person, for delay of just actions, or furth

In criminallaw. One who makes pleas or snits, or causes them to be moved, either directly or indirectly, and sues them at his proper costs, upon condition of having a part of the g

Of the nature of champerty; affected with champerty.

A bargain made by a stranger with one of the parties to a suit, by which such third person undertakes to carry on the litigation at his own cost and risk, in consideration of recei

A person who fights a tel, fought either for the tenant or demandant. 3 BI. Comm. 339, CHAMPION OF THE KING OR

In ecclesiastical law. The part of a church in which the communion table stands; it belongs to the rector or the impropriator. 2 Broom & H. Comm. 420.

THE LORD HIGH. In England, this is the highest judicial functionary in the kingdom, and superior, in point of precedency, to every temporal lord. He is appointed by the delivery of

THE Lorp Hicu.

In English ecclesiastical law. One of the guatuor persone, or four chief dignitaries of the cathedrals of the old foundation. The duties assigned to the office by the statutes of t

In ecclesiasticul law. Is the officer appointed to assist a bishop in matters of law, and to hold his consistory courts for him. 1 Bl. Comm. 382; 2 Steph. Comm. 672. CHANCELLOR OF

In criminal law, A sudden affray. This word is sometimes applied toany kind of homicide by misadventure, but in strictness it is applicable ta such killing only as happens in defen

LIquity; equitable jurisdiction; a court of equity; the system of jurisprudence administered in courts of equity. See CourT OF CHANCERY.

See Crown OFFIOGE IN

1. An aiteration; substitution of one thing for another. This word does not connote either improvement or deterioration as a result. In this respect it differs from emendment, whic

An officer formerly belonging to the king's mint, in England, whose business was chiefly to exchange coin for bullion brought in by merchants and others.

The chief singer in the Mi choir of a cathedral. Mentioned in 13 Eliz.

A church or chapel endowed with lands for the maintenance of priests to say mass daily for the souls of the donors. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.

A place of worship; a lesser or inferior church, sometimes a part of or subordinate to another church. Webster.

In English ecclesiastical law. A chapel founded in general at some period later than the parochial church itself, and designed for the accommodation of such of the parishioners as,

The precinct and limits of achapel. The same thing to a chapel as a parish is toa church. Cowell; Blount.

A hood or bonnet anciently worn by the Knights of the Garter, as part of the habit of that order; also a little escutcheon fixed in the forehead of horses drawing a hearse ata fune

A summary of matters to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, justices of ussise, or of the peace, in their sessions. Also articles delivered by the justice in his c

An ecclesiastic who performs divine service in a chapel; but it more commonly means one who attends upon a king, prince, or other person of quality, for the performance of clerie¢:

An itinerant vendor ot small wares. A trader who trades from place to place. Say. 191, 192.

Im ecclesiastical law. A congregation of ecclesiastical persons in a cathedral church, consisting of canons, or prebendaries, whereof the dean is the head, all subordinate to the b

The aggregate of the moral qualities which belong to and distinguish an individual person; the general result of the one's distinguishing attributes. That moral predisposition or h

0. To impose a burden, obligation, or lien; to create a elaim against property; to claim, to demand; to accuse: to instruet a jury on matters of law.

mn. In general. An incumbrance, lien, or burden; an obligation or duty; @ liability; an accusation, In contracts. An obligation, binding upon him who enters into il, which may be r

This word, in its ardinary aceeptation, as applicable to the imposition of aduty or burden, signifies capable of being charged, subject to be churged, liable to be chargel, or prop

Under the former system of equity practice, this phrase was used to characterize the usual method of taking an account before a master. After the plaintiff had presented his “charg

Weighty; beavy; penal; expensive, Kelham.

The title of a diplomatic representative of inferior rank. He has not the title or dignity of a minister, though he may be charged with the functions which his government does not

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The expenses which have been incurred, or disbursements made, in connection with a contract, suit, or business transaction. Spoken of an action, it is said that the term includes m

A paper kept at a police-station to receive each night the names of the persons brought and given into custody, the nature of the accusation, and the name of the aceuser in each ca

In Scotch law. A writ commanding a person to enter heir to his predecessor within forty days, utherwise an action to be raised aguinst him as if he had entered.

Subjeciively, the sentiment or motive of benevolence and philanthropy; the disposition to relieve the distressed, Ob jectively, alms-giving; acts of benevolence; promotion of phila

A quantity consisting of 36 pigs of lead, each pig weighing about 70 pounds.

The word “chart,” as used in the copyright law, does not include sheets of paper exhibiting tabulated or methodically arranged information. 24 Fed. Rep. 632.

In old English law. A charter or deed; an instrument written and sealed; the formal evidence of conveyances and contracts. Also any signal or token by which an estate was held. The

Inold English law. A common or mutual charter or deed; one containing mutual covenants, or involving mutuality of obligation; one to which both parties might have occasion to refer

In old Englishlaw. A chirographed charter; acharter executed in two parts, and eut through the middle, (scinditur per medium,) where the word “cyrogruphum,” or “ehtrograph-

A colleetion of the laws of the forest, madein the 9th Hen. IiI., and said to have been originally a part of Magna Charia. Charta de non ente non valet. Ca. Litt, 36. A charter con

A deedpoll. Charta non est nisi vestimentum donationis. <A deed is nothing else than the vestment of a gift. Co. Litt. 36.

(Literally, a deed divided.) A charter-party. 3 Kent, Comm. 201.

A chart, or plan, which mariners use at sea.

<A challenge to a single combat; also an instrument or writing between two states for settling the exchange of prisoners of war.

Fr. In French marine law, A charter-party.