Cadi
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A Turkish civil magistrate.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A Turkish civil magistrate. CADUCA (Lat cadere, to fall). In Civil Law. An inheritance; an escheat; every thing which falls to the legal heir by descent Bona caduca are said to be those to which no heir succeeds, equivalent to escheats. Du Cange. Glans caduca, "the acorn which has fallen to the ground," is used in a famous judgment of Kekewich, J., in [1902] 1 Ch. 847, where a fund in court belonging to an Austrian intestate, who was a bastard, was held not to go to the Austrian government by the law of Austria, but to the British crown by the law of England.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The nameof a Turkish civil magistrais.