Black's Law Dictionary

In old English law. A court-baron. Fleta, lib. 2, a 53,

The ecclesiastical court.

The name of a writ to compel another to make a fence or wall, which he was bound to make, between his land and the plaintiff's. Reg. Orig. 155. Now obsolete.

The county court, (q. v.)

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

2 Inst. 552. The court of chancery is the workshop of justice.

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 Gravesend bri

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

In Scotch law. Curtesy. Also the privileges, prerogatives, or, perhaps, retinue, of a court

In old 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 & 13 Vict. c. 101.

4 Inst 50. The court of parliament is governed by its own laws.

In old English law. The court of piedpoudre or pie-pouders, (q. v.) 3 Bl. Comm. 32,

A court held by the sheriff of Chester, in a place there called the "Pendice" or "Pentice;" probably it was so calied 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 aula repis, the bancus, or communis bancus, and the iter or eyre, as being courts of the king, but especially to the aula regis, (which titl

A curious [overnice or subtle] and captious interpretation is reprobated in law. 1 Bulst. 6.

In old English law. A measure containing four bushels or half a quarter of corn. Cowell; Blount.

Coined money and such bank-notes or other paper money as are authorized by law and do in fact circulate from hand to hand as the medium of exchange. Griswold v. Hepburn, 2 Duv. (Ky

Running; now in transit; whatever is at present in course of passage; as "the current month." When applied to money, it means "lawful;" current money is equivalent to lawful money.

An open, running, or unsettled account between two parties. Tucker v. Quimby, 37 Iowa, 19; Franklin v. Camp, 1 N. J. Law, 196 ; Wilson v. Calvert, 18 Ala. 274.

Ordinary, regular, and continuing expenditures for the maintenance of property, the carrying on of an office, municipal government, etc. Sheldon r. Purdy, 17 Wash. 135, 49 Pac. 228

This phrase means gold or silver, or something equivalent thereto, and convertible at pleasure into coined money. Bull v. Bank, 123 U. S. 105 , 8 Sup. Ct. 62, 31 In Ed. 97; Lacy v.

The currency of the country; whatever is intended to and does actually circulate as currency; every species of coin or currency. Miller v. McKinney, 5 Lea (Tenn.) 96. In this phras

This term means the same as "market value." Cases of Champagne, 23 Fed. Cas. 1168.

The current value of imported commodities is their common market price at the place of exportation, without reference to the price actually paid by the importer. Tappan v. U. S., 2

Such as are paid periodically, or from time to time as the services are rendered or the work is performed ; more particularly, wages for the current period, hence not including suc

The year now running. Doe v. Dobell, 1 Adol. & El. 806; Clark v. Lancaster Co.unty, 69 Neb. 717, 96 N. W. 593.

The year; of the course of a year; the set of studies for a particular period, appointed by a university.

In Lat. It runs upon four feet; or, as sometimes expressed, it runs upon all fours. A phrase used in arguments to signify the entire and exact application of a case quoted. "It doe

Time runs against the slothful and those who neglect their rights. Bract fols. 100b, 10L

An officer of the court of exchequer, who is appointed by patent under the grcat seal to be one of the barons of the exchequer. The office was abolished by St. 19 & 20 Viet C. 86.

Clerks in the chancery office, whose duties consisted in drawing up those writs which were of coarse, de cursu, whence their name. They were abolished by St. 5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 82. S

In old records. A ridge. Cur-sones terrœ, ridges of land. Cowell.

An inferior officer of the papal court

S Bulst. 53. The practice of the court is the law of the court.

The estate to which by common law a man is entitled, on the death of his wlfe, in the lands or tenements of which she was seised in possession in fee-simple or in tall during her c

The name of King Edward the Confessor's sword. It is said that the point of it was broken, as an emblem of mercy. (Mat. Par. in Hen. III.) Wharton.

The Inclosed space of ground and buildings immediately surrounding a dwelling-house. In its most comprehensive and proper legal signification, it includes all that space of ground

In old English law. Court lands. Cowell. See Court Lands.

A curtilage; the area or space within the inclosure of a dwelling-house. Spelman,

A garden; a space about a house; a house or manor; a court or palace; a court of justice; a nobleman's residence. Spelman.

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

Writs for the admitting and removing of guardians.

In Roman law. Guardians; observers; inspectors. Persons who acted as inspectors of elections, and who counted the votes given. Tayl. Civll Law, 193. In old English law. Keepers; gu

The style in which writs and all judicial processes were made out during the great revolution, from the execution of King Charles I. till Oliver Cromwell was declared protector.

In the custody of the law. Stockwell v. Robinson, 9 Houst. (Del.) 313, 32 Atl. 528.

In English law. A grant from the crown under the exchequer seal, by which the custody of lands, etc., seised in the king's hands, is demised or committed to seme person as custodee

The care and keeping of anything; as when an article ls said to be "in the custody of the court" People v. Burr, 41 How. Prae. (N. Y.) 296; Emmerson v. State, 33 Tex. Or. R. 89, 25

Property is in the custody of the law when it has been lawfully taken by authority of legal process, and remains in the possession or a public officer (as, a sheriff) or an officer

A usage or practice of the people, which, by common adoption and acquiescence, and by long and unvarying habit, has become compulsory, and has acquired the force of a law with resp

According to custom or usage; founded on or growing out of or dependent on, a custom, (q. v.) —Customary Court-Baron. See COURT-Baron. —Cnstomary estates. Estates which owe their o

See COURT-Baron.

Chstom 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 the 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 mercatona," or "law-merchant," has been

A custom of the province of York in England, by which the effects of an intestate, after payment of his debts, are in general divided according to the ancient universal doctrine of

This term is usually applied to those taxes which are payable upon goods and merchandise imported or exported. Story, Co.nst. § 949; Pollock v. Trust Co., 158 U. S. 601, 15 Sup. Ct

The statute 16 & 17 Viet. c. 107, which has been frequently amended. See 2 Steph. Comm. 563.

A court of the United States, created by act of congress in 1909, to hear and determine appeals from the decisions of the revenue officers in the imposition and collection of custo

Certain particular customs, peculiar to that city, with regard to trade, apprentices, widows, orphans and a variety of other matters ; contrary to the general law of the land, but

Lat. A custodian, guard, keeper or warden; a magistrate. —Custos brevium. The keeper of the writs. A principal clerk belonging to the courts of queen's bench and common pleas, whos

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

A gamekeeper. Townsh. PL 265.

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

In old English law. Warden of the sea. The title of a 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. 4 Steph. Comm. 377.

In old English law. Keeper of the pleas of the crown. Bract. foL 145. 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 ecolesiastical law. Keeper of the spiritualities. He who exercises the spiritual jurisdiction of a diocese during the vacancy of the see. Cowell.

7 Coke, 7. A guardian can make the estate of an existing heir under his guardianship better, not worse.

In English ecclesiastical law. The person to whom a vacant see or abbey was given by the king, as supreme lord. His office was, as steward of the goods and profits, to give an acco

In old English law. Guardian, warden, or keeper of the land.

(Lati. Ancient or great duties.) The duties on wool, sheep-skin, or wool-pelts and leather exported were so called, and were payable by every merchant, stranger as well as native,

(Small and new customs.) Imposts of 3d. in the pound, due formerly in England from merchant strangers only, for all commodities, as well Imported as exported. This was usually call

A wound made with a sharp instrument State v. Patza, 3 La. Ann. 512; State v. Cody, 18 Or. 506, 23 Pac. 891; State V. Mairs, 1 N. J. Law, 453.

In Hindu law. Corrupted from Kachari. A court; a hall; an office; the place where any public business is transacted.

Sax. Known, knowing, XJncuth, unknown. See Couthutlaugh, Uncuth.

A knowing or skillfni counsellor.

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

In Old English law. An officer in the exchequer, to whom it belonged to provide wood for the tallies, and to cut the sum paid upon them, etc.

The chief officer of police or superintendent of markets in a large town or city in Indin.

A hundred-weight; one hundred and twelve pounds. Heim v. Bryant, 11 B. Mon. (Ky.) 64.

In law French. Here, (Oy-apres, hereafter; cy-devant, heretofore.) Also as, se.

A measure of time; a space in which the same revolutions begin again; a periodical space of time. Enc. Lond.

A mode of computing time by the space of fifteen years, instituted by Constantine the Great; originally the period for the payment of certain taxes. Some of the charters of King Ed

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

The portion belonging to the nation of the mnict for slaying the king, the other portion or were being due to his famliy. Blount.

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 bant or weighed down. Bn

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 put as near as may be, when it wo

In Saxon law. A church. —Cyricbryce. A breaking into a church. Blount. —Cyricsceat. (From oyric, church, and sceat, a tribute.) In Saxon law. A tribute or payment due to the church

A breaking into a church. Blount.

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

In old English law. A cyrographer; an officer of the bano-us or court of common bench. Fleta, llb. 2, c. 36.

A chirograph, (which see.)

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

The title of the empress of Russia.

The title of the eldest son of the czar and czarina.