A Law Dictionary and Glossary

In Spaflish law. An allotment of land, being a lot one hundred feet front and two hundred feet deep.

Cablis, fr. In the forest law. Brush-wood or browse-wood; wind-fallen wood.

span. In Spanish-American law. Property entailed on the caciques or heads of Indian villages and their descendants.

span. In Spanish law. An ofi Scial statement of the quantity and value of realty in a district, made for the purpose of apportioning taxes.

I. I. In old Cadere a, or ab: to Cadit. Cadere assisa: to lose one's cause. come liable to; — nant or a contract; to

I. In old practice. loses her cause. Cadit pellnm: the appeal ratam: the assise is tionem: the assise is enda nt assisa, sed to be taken as an assise, the writ fails. Cadit ject of

I. I. In the civil V. De caduais, etc.;

Relating to escheat

cadnca, I. I. In escheated; falling or ing sickness. Cadnca

cambipartitor, 1 1, In old English law. A champertor. v. Champertor.

Z. A pen; writing atramenti: difference

calangia, I. I. or dispute.

calcea, calceata, raised with earth and

Jcalendar, the division into years, of such division; an practice. To fall; to fail; to cease; to abate. lose; to fail in; to be defeated, v. Cadat; to be nonsuited. Cadere cansa:

I. I. An orderly division of time, as months, weeks and days; a table or register orderly list of persons, things or events. Calcourt of record, prepared by the for the use of benc

Calendse, Ealendse, I. In the month in the Roman calendar priest calling out, or proclaiming festivals and the time of the new

A demand upon subscribers payment on account of their In American land law. A designation ible natural object as a limit locative call; a designation of eral call.

To request or command to the discharge of a particular duty voice. Call a case: to announce may now be tried or argued; to a particular list Call a docket, list in open court with

calnmpnia, I. I. In eld the demand of a right in a thing In the civil law.i Calumny, malice, a malicious prosecution. calumny; an oath imposed on clerk shortly prior to each term,

caupe. In old Scots law. time and liege poustie (lawful other superior, for his maintenance immediately after his decease,

caluinpniare, II In old English law. To claim or demand; to object to; to challenge. Calampniavit arraiamentum panelli: he challenged the array of the panel. In the civil law. To c

Lat. In the civil law. One who accused another of a crime without cause. Cambiator. In old English law. An exchanger. Cambiatores monetae: exchangers of money; money-changers.

cambipartita, I. I. In old English law. Champerty. V. Champerty; Campers.

L I. In old English law. To change or exchange.

A dealer in notes and bills of exchange.

1. 1. In old pleading, of, or relating to, exchange.

cambuca, 1. 1. In old ecclesiastical records. A crozier; a bishop's pastoral staff.

I. I. In old English law. A chamber; a judge's chamber. Camera regis: a chamber of the king; a place of peculiar privileges, especially in a commercial way. Camera scaccarii: the e

I. I. In old English law. A chamberlain; an officer who had the charge of the royal- chambers or apartments; a bailiff or receiver.

span. In Spanish law. A highway; the right of way.

In old records. A part or portion of a larger field or ground; champerty, v. Campers.

campipars, I. I In old English statutes. A share or division of land, or other thing; champerty, v. Champerty.

I. L In old records. A corn-field; a field of grain.

In old English law. The fighting of two champions in the field; the judicial combat, or duellum. v. Acre-fight.

I. I. In old English law. A champion. Campio condactivus: a hired champion, v. Champion.

Z. In feudal and old English law. A field, or plain; the field marked out for the combatants in the trial by battel; the combat itself; camp-fight, v. Acre-fight. Campus Maii: the

I. I. In old records. To lay or place inauus: to cancellate the hands; to lay them

I. I. In old English law. Chancery court of chancery.

1 1. In old English late. A canceling.

I. Bars laid across each other; lattices, with bars laid crosswise, one over another; composed of such cross-bars, to keep off the without obslructmg their view of the court the co

I. Caution; care; providence, v. Ad majorem, etc.; Ex abundanti, etc.; Ex majore, etc.

Ifr. In old statutes, causeways, or

A law, rule or ordinance in general, and ticular. Canon of inheritance: a legal rule mission of estates from ancestor to heir. In English ecclesiastical law. A prebendary or a pers

I. In ecclesiastical law. A ligious of every greater convent had a transcript, order often read among them as their local In the civil law. A rent; a prestation; a pension; to expu

In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical benefice, attaching to the ofl Sce of canon.

1. 1. In old English law. Signify you to us the reason; a writ which lay against a mayor of a town who had neglected or refused to deliver seisin to the king's grantee, commanding

1. 1. In old English law. To cause or produce; to complain of; to show cause against or object to. Cansans: causing. Causata: caused.-

I. In the civil law. A pleader; one who argued a cause ore tenus,

I. I In old English law. A chantry.

In old English law. That which is added above measure; heaped measure.

I. In the civil law. Security for performance; security in an action; bail. Cautio fldejnssoria: security given by sureties, pledges, or bondsmen. Cautio jnratoria: security given

In Scots law. A surety; a guarantor.

In Scots laui Suretyship; the obligation of suretyship.

cantref, cantrep, kantref. In old records. A district containing a hundred villages; a hundred. In Wales, the counties were divided into cantreds, as in England into hundreds.

Ability, power, competency or qualification to do certain acts, perform a certain function, or assume a certain relation; as capacity to contract, to devise, to take or hold lands;

I. One who takes or holds; one who can take, hold or entertain; capable of. Capax negotii: capable of transacting business. Capaces: takers or holders, v. Doli.

I. In old English law. Take; a judicial writ, issued in real actions, directing the sheriff to take and hold the laud where the tenant or defendant made default Cape ad valentiam:

I. I. In old English law. A cap. Capellus ferreus: a steel cap; a helmet or bead-pieca

I. In old English law. To take; to seize or arrest; to take or receive judicially; to receive the verdict of an assise or jury; to hold courts at which such verdicts weie given. Ca

I. Take you, — the general name for a writ of attachment or arrest. Capias ad compntandnm: take you — to make account; a writ issued in the action of account render, upon judgment

/. I. In old English law. Let him be taken for the fine; a clause inserted at the end of old judgment records in actions of debt where it was found against the defendant upon his f

I. Heads, and figuratively, entire bodies, whether of persons or animals; persons individually considered; persons as distinguished from stirpes or stocks of descent; heads of catt

fr. Leader; commander; captain. Capitaine flote: commander of the fieet

Chief; principal; at the head; as, a capital burgess, a capital citizen, a capital messuage. Relating to or affecting the life of a person; as, a capital crime, capital punishment

captale, I. I In old European law. A beast or animal, considered as an article of property. Capitalia, captalia: any kind of goods, but properly that which consists in animals, som

I. In old English law. Affecting or involving life, capital; at the head, chief, principal. Capitalis baro: chief baron; — scaccarii domini regis: chief baron of the exchequer. Cap

I. I In feudal law. One who held an estate or dignity in capite, that is. immediately from the king; a chief lord or baron of the king; a leader; a captain; a naval commander. Capi

1. 1. In old law and surveys. To head, front or abut; to touch at the head or end.

I. By the head; to each individual.

A tax on the head or person; a poll-tax.

I. In the civil law. One who had suffered the capitis deminutio. v. Capitis deminutio. '

/. In the civil law. The loss of a status or civil qualification; the change of a man's former condition. Capitis deminutio maxima: the highest kind of capitis deminutio, when libe

/. 2. In old English lau\ A chapter; a small head or division; an assembly of ecclesiastical persons; a congregation of clergymen under one dean in a cathedral church, v. Chapter.

I Z. In feudal and old ecclesiastical law. Chapters or assemblies of ecclesiastical persons; collections of laws or ordinances, ters or heads of inquiry, resembling the capitula it

A collection of chapters; a decree or ordinanca

I. I. In old English law. payment of it

capucium, I I In old English headland.

A taking or seizure of a thing, as an animal; a certificate of the taking of a commission, subscribed by the commissionei-s; the title or heading of a legal document, as a bill in

I. I. In old English lato. A taker; a lessee; a taker of property; one who seized cattle as a distress. In international law. One who takes or seizes property in time of war, parti

In international law. A taking or seizure of the goods of an enemy; a taking of prizes in time of war, particularly at sea. V. Seizure.

I. A bead; a person; the life of a person; a chief; a beginning; a principal. In old English law. A head; a beginning; a principal division; the head of a person; the head or upper

I. I In old English law. A kind

I L In old English law. A

I. I In old English law.. To load carter wagon; to charge, as in account. to load and discharge. Carcata: lading. Carcationes: ladings.

Attention; caution; diligence; negligence is the gist of the matter, of negligence, but no violation of the V. Due; Ordinary; Reasonable; Slight.

carreeta, I. I. In old English tinguished from both currus and carrum. Carectata: a cart load.

Z. A prison or gaol. Strictly, a place tion and safe keeping, and not of nendos homines, non ad puniendos to be used for confining men, not for homines custodiendos, non ad puniend

carina, carrena, I. I. In old of forty days. The same in meaning V. Quarantine.

carrecta, /, I. In old English law. A carriage, cart or wain load.

1. 1. In old English law. To charga

The load or lading of a vessel; goods board a ship to be carried. The term persons nor to animals.

1. 1. In old English law. Carriage or other things for the king.

1. 1. In old English law. To carry. carry and recarry. Cariaiit: (he) carried.

I. I In old English law. A carrier.

I. fr. To carry. as head of the state. Caput county; one of the ancient the chief ioi'd of a fee. qualification or status which rights among the Romans, of freedom, citizenship, fa

I. I. In old English law. Shrovetide.

Of the body; relating to the body; bodily.

1. 1. In old criminal law. Carnally. Carnaliter cogfno- Tit: carnally knew. Technical and essential words in indictments for rape.

carnage, carvage, Carucaginm, carnaginm, 1. 1 In old English law. A kind of tax or tribute anciently imposed for the public service upon every carucate or carve of land.

I. In old English law. A ploughman. In the civil law. The driver of a caruca or carucca.