A Dictionary of Law

The county court, (q. v.)

A court held by the lord of the manor of Gravesend for the better management of barges and boats plying on the river Thames between Gravesend and Windsor, and also at Grayesend bri

In old English law. The lord’s court, house, or hall, where all the tenants met at the time of keeping court. Cowell.

A phrase used in old Scotch records to show that the court was opened in due and lawful manner.

Inold English law. The great court; one of the ancient names of parliament.

In old English law, The mayor's court. Calth. 144.

A court so called, anciently held at Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight. Cowell.

The palace court. It was abolished by 12 & 18 Vict. e. 101. Curia parliamenti suis propriis legibus subsistit. 4 Inst. 50. The court of parliament is governed by its own laws.

In old English law. The court of piedpoudre or piepouders, (q. 0.) 3 BI. Comm. 32.

Acourt held by the sheriff of Chester, in a place there called the “Pendice” or “ Pentice;” probably it was so called from being originally held under a pent-house, or open shed co

In old records. A. parsonage-house, or manse. Cowell.

The King’s court. A term applied to the auia regis, the bancus, or communis bancus, and the tter or eyre, as being courts of the king, but especially te the aula regis, (which titl

In Scotch law. A bond and mortgage on land.

In old English law. A CURSO. Inold records. A ridge. Curmeasure containing four bushels or half a sones terre, ridges of land. Cowell. ee quarter of corn. Cowell; Blount. CURSOR. A

Coined..money and such ‘pal court, bank-notes or other paper money as are au- Cursus curie est lex curize. 3 Bulst. thorized by law and do in fact circulate from 53. The practice o

Running; now in transit; CURTESY, The estate to which by comwhatever is at present in course of passage; mon law a man is entitled, on the death of as “the current month.” When app

This phrase means have had lawful issue born alive which might gold or silver, or something equivalent there- eee have been capable of inheriting the estate. to, and convertible at

The year; of the course be large enough for eattle to be Jevant and couchant therein. 1 Chit. Gen. Pr. 175. of a year; the set of studies fora particular The curtilage of a dwellin

An officer of the

Clerks in the chancery of- CURTIS. A garden; a space about a fice, whose duties consisted in drawing up house; a house, or manor; a court, or palace;

A term used in Hindostan for the discount or allowance made in the exchange of rupees, in contradistinetion to batta, which is the sum deducted. Enc. Lond.

CUSTAGIUM, CUSTANTIA. Costs. €

In Roman law. Guardians; observers; inspectors. Persons who ected as inspectors of elections, and who eounted the votes given. Tay]. Civil Law, 1938. In old English law. Keepers; g

In the custody of the law.

In Englishlaw. A grant from the crown under the exchequer seal, by which the custody of lands, ete., seised in the king’s hands, is demised or committed to some person as custodee

The care and keeping of anything; as when an article is said to be “in the custody of the court.” Also the detainer of a man’s person by virtue of lawful process or authority; actu

A court-baron at which copyholders might transfer their estates, and where other matfers relating to their tenures were Lransacted. 3 Bl. Comm. 33.

Estates which owe their origin and existence to the custom of the manor in which they are held. 2 Bi. Comin. 149.

In FEnglish Jaw. A variety of copyhold estate, the evidences of the title to which are to be found upon the court rolls; the entries declaring the holding to be according to the cu

Such as are due by ancient custom or prescription only.

Tenants holding by custom of the manor. Custome serra prise stricte. Custom shall be taken [is to be construed] strictly. Jenk. Cent. 83.

In administrative law. The house or office where commodities are entered for importation or exportation; where tho duties, bounties, or drawbacks payable or receivable upon such im

A system of customs or rules relative to bills of exchange, partnership, and other mercantile matters, and which, under the name of the “lex mereatoria,” or “law-mercliant,” has be

A custom of in-.estacy in the province of York similar to that of London. Abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. ¢, 94,

This term is usually applied to those taxes which are payable upon goods and merchandise imported or exported. Story, Const. § 949; Bac. Abr, “Smuggling.” The duties, toll, tribute

Particular customs within the city of London, with regard to trade, apprentices, widows, orphans, and a variety of other matters. 1 Bl. Comm. 75; 1 Steph. Comm. 54, 55,

A custodian, guard, keeper, or warden; a magistrate.

The keeper of the writs. A principal elerk belonging to the courts of queen’s bench and common pleas, whose office it was to keep the writs returnable into thosecourts. The office

A gamekeeper. Townsh. Pl. 265.

Protector of the royal granary. 2 Bl. Coinm. 394.

In old English law. Warden of the sea. The title ofa high naval officer among the Saxons and after the Conquest, corresponding with admiral.

The guardian of morals. The court of queen’s bench has been so styled. 4Steph. Comm. 377,

In old English law. Keeper of the pleas of the crown. Bract. fol. 146. Cowell supposes this office to have been the same with the custos rotulorum, But it seems rather to have been

Keeper of the rolls. An officer in England who has the custody of the rolls or records of the sessions of the peace, and also of the commission of the peace itself. He is always a

In English ecclesiasticallaw, Keeper of the spiritualities. He who exercises the spiritual! jurisdiction of a diocese during the vacancy of the see. Cowell. Custos statum heeredis

In old English law. Guardian, warden, or keeper of the land. CUSTUMA ANTIQUA SIVE MAG- NA, (Lat. Ancient or great duties.) The duties on wool, sheep-skin, or wool-pelts and leather

(Small and neweustoms.) Imposts of 8d. in the ponnd, due formerly in England from merchant strangers only, for all commodities, as well imported as exported. This was usnally calle

In Hindu law. Cor. rupted from Xeehari. A court; a hall; an ollice; the place where any public business is transacted.

A knowing orskillful counsellor.

In English law. One who ig put out of the protection or aid of the law.

One who steals by the method of cutting purses; a common practice when men wore their purses at their girdles, as was once the custom. Wharton.

1. Remaining undischarged; unpaid; uncollected; as an out- ‘ standing debt. 2. Existing as an adverse claim or preten-

In old Englishlaw. An officer inthe exchequer, to whom it belonged to provide wood for the tallies, and to cut the sum paid upon them, ete,

KATWAL. The chief officer of police or superintendent of markets in a large town or city in India. CW. A hundred-weight; one hundred and twelve pounds. 11 B. Mon. 64. CY. In law Fr

A measure of time; aspace in

or CYNE-GILD. The portion belonging to the nation of the mulct for slayin g the king, the other portion or were being due to his family. Blount.

A muletanciently paid by one who killed another, to the kindred of the deceased. Spelman.

That kind of punishment used by the ancients, and still used by the Chinese, called by Staunton the “wooden collar,” by which the neck of the malefactor is bent or weigheddown. Enc

As near as [possible.] The rule of cy-pres is a rule for the construction of instruments in equity, by which the intention of the party is carried out as near as may be, when it wo

In Saxon law. <A church.

In Saxon law. A breaking intoa church. Blount.

(From cyric, church, and sceat, a tribute.) In Saxon law. A tribute or payment due to the church. Cowell.

A chirograph, (which see.)

Inold English law. A eyrographer; an officer of the tance us, or court of common beneh. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 36.

The title of the emperor of Russia, first assumed by Basil, the son of Basil. ides, under whom the Russian power began to appear, about 1740.

The title of the empress of Russia.

In the civil and old common law. Kept for cutting; intended or used to be cut. A term applied to wood.

In Spanish law. The real and effective delivery of an object in the execition of & contract.

A kind of gun. 1 How. State Tr, 1124, 1125.

Every day; every day in the week; every day in the week except one. A newspaper which is published six days in each week is a “daily” newspaper. 45 Cal. 30,

or DIKER. Ten hides. Blount. DALE and SALE. Fictitious names of places, used in the English books, as examples. “The manor of Dale and the manor of Sale, lying both in Vale.”

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A construction of wood, stons, or other materials, made across a stream for the purpose of penning back the waters, ‘This word is used in two different senses. It properly means th

Loss, injury, or deterioration, caused by the negligence, design, or accident of one person to another, in respect of the latter’s person or property. The word is to be distinguish

A fee assessed of the tenth part in the common pleas, and the twentieth part in the queen's bench and exchequer, out of all damages exceeding five marks recovered in those courts,

Goods, subject to duties, whieh have received some injury either in the voyage home or while bonded in warehouse,

A pecuniary compensation or indemnity, which may be recovered in the courts by any person who has suffered loss, detriment, or injury, whether to his person, property, or rights, t

Inold English law. Causing damage or loss, as distinguished from torcenousc, wrongful. Tritt. c. 61.

In Englishlaw. The legal designation of the wife of a knight or baronet.

Damages, both inclusive and exclusive of costs.

In old English law. Condemned; prohibited by law; unlawful. Damnatus evitus, an unlawful connection.

That which causes damage or loss.

To cause damage or injurious loss to a person.

An action given by the civil law for the damage done by one who intentionally injured the slave or beast of another. Calvin,

Inthe civil law. Fatal damage; damage from fate; loss happening from a cause beyond human control, (quod em fato continyit,) or an act of God, and for which hailees are not liable;

In Roman law. Damage not yet committed, but threatened or impending. A preventive interdict might be obtained to prevent such damage from happening; and it was treated aa a quasi-d

Inthe civil law. <A loss arising from a payment mada by a party in consequence of an error of law. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 178. Damnum sine injuriaé esse potest. Lofft, 112. There may

Anciently the better sort of men in England had this title; sothe Spanish Don. The old term of honor for men, as we now say Master or Mister. Wharton.

DANEGELD. A tribute of 1s. and afterwards of 2s. upon every hide of land through the realm, levied by the Anglo-Saxons, for maintaining such a number of forces as were thought suff

A system of laws introduced by the Danes on their invasion and conquest of England, and which was principally maintained in some of the midland counties, and also on the eastern co

In old English law. A money payment made by forest-tenants, that they might have liberty to plow and sow in time of pannage, or must feeding.

One dangerous to life; one by the use of which a fatal wound may probably or possibly be given. As the manner of use enters into the consideration as well as other circumstances, t

This phrase, as used in bills of lading, means only the natural accidents incident to river navigation, and does not embrace such as may be avoided by the exercise of that skill, j

The expression “dangers of the sea” means those accidents peculiar to navigation that are of an extraordinary nature, or arise from irresistible force or overwhelming power, which

In Spanish law. Damage; the deterioration, injury, or destruction which a man suffers with respect to his person or his property by the fault (culpa) of another. White, New Recop.

A steward either of a king or lord. Spelman.

Togive away in fee, or forever.

To clear a legal account; to answer an accusation; to settle a controversy.

L Fr. In old English law. The last presentment. See AssisE or DARREIN PRESENTMENT.

(L. Fr. Last seiain.) A plea which lay in some cases for the tenant in-a writ of right. See 1 Bose. Real Act. 206.