Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Cry
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    To call out aloud; to proclaim; to publish; to sell at auction. "To cry a tract of land." Carr v. Gooch, 1 Wash. iVa.) 335, (260.) A clamor raised in the pursuit of an escaping felon. 4 Bl. Comm. 293. See Hub and Cry.