A Law Dictionary and Glossary

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.

I. I. One who holds land in carvage, — i. e., in socage or plough tenure.

One who carries or agrees to carry goods for hire, or without hire. v. Common carrier. '

carrus, I. In old English law. A wagon or wain; a fourwheeled vehicle. Carrying: away. The act of removal or asportation which is essential to larceny.

A carriage with two wheels, fitted to be drawn by one horse or by a yoke of oxen, and used in husbandry, or in commerce for carrying heavy commodities; a carriage in general. Cart

charta, Lat. In old English law. A charter, deed or writing. Carta de foresta: the charter of the forest. Carta non est nisi vestimentum donationis: the deed is nothing but the clo

fr. A white sheet of paper; a blank instrument; a paper with a signature, given with authority to fill out as a desired.

chartel. A written challenge; an instrument or writing for settling the exchange of prisoners of war. v. Chartel Cartel ship: a vessel commissioned for the purpose of effecting an

carua, 1. I. In old English law. A plough. Carnca boom: a plough of oxen, that is, drawn by a pair of oxen.

I. l, Carue, I. fr. In old English and Scots law. As much land as might be tilled by one plough; a carucate or carve of land; a ploughland, — probably no fixed quantity. A team of

An action; a suit; a question contested before a court, either at law or in equity; a written statement of facts intended to be submitted to a court for its opinion or judgment; an

I. I In old English law. A dairy woman.

/. I. In old Englifih law. To quash, or make void; to annul; to abate. Cassabitur breve: the writ shall be quashed. Cassatae: quashed, v. Cassetur.

I. I. In old practice, a quashing, or making void; an abatement.

fr. The act of annulling, breaking or quashing, as a judgment or decree. The Court of Cassation is the highest court of appeal in France.

or Quod billa cassetur, I. I. That the bill be quashed; the judgment for the defendant on a plea in abatement, where the action was commenced by bill; an entry by a plaintiff on th

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

Defeated in an action. Castelgardum.Z. Jn feudal law. The defense or guard of a castle. V. Castleguard.

Castellanus, castellanius, castellarins, 1. 1. In old English law. The keeper or captain of a castle or fortified house, acting as, or for, its owner; the constable of a castle.

castellatura, 1 1. In old English law. The of Sce of a castellain; the territory or jurisdiction of a castle.

I. I. In Saxon and old work; labor done by inferior tenants, for the ing of opstles and public places of defense, v.

Castigatorium, I. I. In old English for the punishment of scolds or unquiet women the cucking stool, trebucket and tumbrel, v.

The vote which a presiding of Hcer where the body over which he presides is equally

castelgard, castleward, Castelgardum, warduiu castri, custodia castri, I. I. In feudal law. The defense or guard of a castle, otherwise ward; a species of feudal service or tenure;

I In the Roman law. Relating to the service. Castrense peculinni: a portion of acquired in war, or from his connection with lium castrense.

I. In old English law. A castle; a castle, In the Roman law. A camp.

The nominal defendant in ejectment by a fiction of law, he is supposed to come casually, upon the premises, and to eject the lawful possessor.

I In old English law. Casual; accidental.

In Scots lau: Certain to the superior lord in respect to a tenancy, and dents of feudal tenure at common law.

Inevitable accident; an event not to be against; a loss from such an event or cause.

I. In old English law. In a simili casu; Trespass on the ease. Casu proviso: in a writ of entry which, by the statute of Gloucester, lay for a reversioner against one to whom a ten

I. A case; a cause or action; an event; a bination of circumstances; a chance; an accident Casus foederis: the case of the treaty or compact contemplated by a treaty or compact. Ca

I. I In old English law. Chattels immovable, except fees and freeholds. or chattels as distinguished from animals as were not used for the plough. Catallis captis nomine districtio

I. I. In old English law. A chattel.

I. I. In feudal law. A tenant in

An agreement with purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate

An officer who makes arrests, — of contempt, but as an ordinary official

I. I In old English law. To tenult: chained and kept in irons.

In English IV., c. 7, by which Roman Catholics were of all civil rights except that of holding high state offices. In Scots law. Catholic creditor: an debt is secured over all or p

Domestic animals, including swine, mules, as well as animals of the ox kind,

In English law. A right to another.

I. I. In Old English law. Chancellor cellarius de scaccario, or Caucellarius et carii domini reg'is: chancellor of the ducatns et comitatus palatini domini regis the duchy of Lanca

/. I. In old English law. A extreme part of a ridge or furrow in lower end of a field; perhaps, a slip of end of a field, as caput terrce, a headland, V. Abuttals; Butts; Headlands

I. I. In old records. A trial by hot England.

I. I. In the civil law. An innkeeper.

I. In the civil law. An inn or

Italian merchants who came non est sperandns; et nemo not to be expected, and no supponendas: a fortuitous omissus: a case omitted, omission of a statute to prodatiis disposition!

I. A cause; an occasion; a reason; by reason of; on account of; in contemplation of. Causa adulterii: by reason of adultery. Cansa consaiis, or remota: the original or remote cause

That which produces an effect; that which moves, leads, or induces; the origin or foundation of a thing, as of a suit; a ground of

In admiralty and Scots law. Security; bail. v. Cautio.

In Scots law. The obligation by vrhich a party becomes a surety.

I. Let him beware; let him take heed. A formal notice, or caution to a court, judge or public officer not to do a certain act, or not without notice to the caveator; as not to prob

One who interposes a caveat Caveatee: one against whom a caveat is interposed,

1. 1. In feudal law. A vault or repository for keeping grain, wine, oil, etc.

I. In the civil and the common law. To take care; to provide for or against; to provide or forbid by law; to give security. Cavetur: provision is made, a remedy is given. Cautum: s

Lat. In old English law. A quay, kay, key, or wharf. Ce, cecy, ceo, L. fr. This; that. Ceals: those. Ceo oyes vous home qui jeo teigne par la mayn: hear this you man whom I hold by

ceai)g:el, sax. The payment or forfeiture of a beast; a species of forfeiture.

To assign or transfer. Applied to a transfer of territory by one state or nation to another.

In Scots law. An assignor.

1. In civil and old English law. To yield or give up; to assign or transfer; to give way to another, as superior; to pass with a thing, as an inferior or subordinate thing; to belo

I. In old English law. A schedule.

I. I. In old English law. A cellar.

celda, I. I. In old English law. A chaldron. In old Scots law. A measure of grain; a chalder.

I. I. In old English laio. A steward of a monastery; a cellarer or bursar.

In Saxon law. A mulct paid by one who had killed another, to the relatives of the deceased.

1.1. In Saxon law. Notice given by a buyer to a seller that the thing sold was claimed by another, that he might appear and justify the sala

fr. In old Canadian law. A tribute or payment imposed on a tenant; an annual payment reserved to a seignior or lord, and imposed merely in recognition of his superiority.

I. I. In old English law. A farm, or house and land let at a standing rent.

I. t Farmers, or those who were liable to pay a tax.

I In the Roman law. To ordain; to decree.

fr. In old Canadian law. One who held by the title or tenure of cens.

I In the Roman law. They have decreed; the technical term for the judgment, resolution or decree of the senate, v. Censere.

II. A dead rent; the same as mortmain.

1. 1. In old English hundredors. ■Centesima, I. In the Roman law. per cent per annum, the highest Central criminal court. A court which the criminal jurisdiction ferred.

I. A hundred men; dred judges, to whom belonged questions of law.

carl, churl, sax., Ceorlus, employed in husbandry; a

7. I have taken, or arrested. — et committitur: I have taken in cnstodia: I have taken the langnidns: I have taken the habeo: I have taken the body, rious names of the return to ce

I. Took, or he took, — the of trespass for taking personal plevin and trespass. The word tion in some cases; as in replevin merely, it is called replevin in or he took; the plea in

I. I. In old English which remain in the ground

Known; clear, as opposed to general; limited, specified, In feudal and old English law. limited or defined in quantity. law. The freeholders of a hundred; One per cent monthly, or

I. In old English law.

A writing giving assurance as to some fact or act; a writing made by a court, by a judge, or other officer of court, certifying or giving notice of certain facts generally for the

A check which the proper bank officer has acknowledged as drawn against funds on deposit, usually by the writing of the word " good " and his signature across the face.

1. 1. In old practice, to certify; to make certain; to give information.

I. I. To be made more certain; to be certified or more distinctly informed; a writ issued by a superior to an inferior court to remove a cause, either civil or criminal, before tri

In Scots law. A term used in judicial writs, to express the penalty annexed to the disregard of the order contained in the writ In old English law. Certification of assise: a writ

In old English law. by the tenants of several manors court-leet

certa, 1. Certain; defined; particularly described or specified. Certa debet esse intentio, et certum fundamentum, et certa res quae deducitur in judicium: the count ought to be ce

I. Certain; definite; determined; known. Certain est quod certo reddi potest: that is certain which can be reduced to a certainty. V. Id certum, etc.

L I. Tenants among the Saxons, who were liable to a duty called drinclean, which was a contribution towards providing ale to entei'tain the lord or his steward.

I. I. In old English law. Ale or beer, properly the former; a compotation, or entertainment Cervisia Inpulata: beer. Cer- Tisise: ales.

Lat. To cease; to stop, or stay; to neglect; to come to an end, as an estate. Cessante causa, cessat effectus: the cause ceasing, the effect ceases also. Cessante ratione legis, ce

In old English law. An assessment, exaction or tax.

cessure. Neglect; a ceasing from, or omission to do a thing; the determination of an estate.