Catholic Emancipation Act
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
The statute of 10 Geo. IV. c.
7, by which Roman Catholics were restored, in general, to the full enjoyment of all civil rights, except that of holding ecclesiastical offices, and certain high appointments in the state.
3 Steph. Com. 109.
CAUDA TERR^. L. Lat. A land's end; or the bottom or extreme part of a ridge or furrow in arable land.
Cowell.
The bottom or lower end of a field; perhaps, a slip of unploughed land at the lower end of a field, as caput terra, a headland, was at the upper end.* See Abuttals, Butts, Headlands.