Cast

A term used in connection with the imposition upon a party litigant of costs in the suit: A is cast for the costs of the case. CASTELL0RUM 0PERATI0. In Old English Law. Service or labor done by inferior tenants for the building and upholding of castles and public places of defence. Towards this some gave their personal service, and others, a contribution of money or goods. This was one branch of the trinoda necessitas; 1 Bla. Com. 263; from which no lands could be exempted under the Saxons; though immunity was sometimes allowed after the conquest; Kennett, Paroch. Ant. 114; Cowell. CASTIGAT0RY. An engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds. It is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking-stool, or cucking-stool. This barbarous punishment has perhaps never been inflicted in the United States; James v. Com., 12 S. & R. (Pa.) 2,25.

v. In old English practice. To allege, offer or present; to proffer by way of excuse, (as to "cast an essoin.") This word is now used as a popular, rather than a technical, term, in the sense of to overcome, overthrow, or defeat in a civll action at law.
—Cast away. To cast away a ship la to do such an act upon or in regard to it as causes it to perish or be lost, so as to be irrecoverable by ordinary means. The term is synonymous with "destroy," which means to unfit a vessel for service beyond the hope of recovery by ordinary means. U. S. v. Johns, 26 Fed. Gas. 616; U. S. v. Vanranst, 28 Fed. Cas. 360.

To transfer; to invest with, — as to cast an estate upon an heir; to overcome or defeat in an action. Cast away: to wreck, to cause to be lost, as, a vessel.

In old English law. To allege, offer or present; to put forward. Cast a protection: to present or allege it as an excuse. Cast an essoign: to allege an excuse for the failure of a party to appear in court on the return of the original writ.

0 In old English practice. To allege, offer, or present; to proffer by way of excuse, (as to “cast an essoin.”) This word is now used as a popular, rather than a technical, term, in the sense of to overcome, overthrow, or defeat in a civil action at law.

To transfer, invest with, place upon; as, in saying that the law casts the legal ownership of the property of an intestate upon the administrator, ^ or casts the estate upon the heir.^ Cast away. For a vessel to be lost, to be irrecoverable by ordinary means, to perish.' Casting vote. See Vote.

To allege, proffer; to overthrow, defeat Cast cin essoign: to put in an excuse for non-appearance in an action.