A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. A cession; a surrender; an assignment. Cessio bonornm: a surrender by an insolvent of his property to his creditors. This was the meaning of the terra under the Roman law, and t

A giving up or abandonment of a right, or of property. In the civil law. A giving up, surrender or assignment of goods to, or for the benefit of, creditors. In ecclesiastical law.

cessioner. In Scots law. An assignee.

In old English law. One who neglected so long to perform a duty as to incur danger of the law, and to become liable to a writ of cessavit.

c'est asaver, I. fr. That is to say, or to wit Written sometimes as one word, cestascavoir, or cestasaver.

cestuy, I. fr. He. Cestuy que: he who; — doit enlieriter al pare, doit enheriter al fltz: he who would have been heir to the father, shall be heir to the son; — trust: he who trust

cettuy, fr. That

ceaux, I fr. These; those, Ceux parolx: these words.

I. Generally.- Generaliter dicta generaliter sunt interpretanda: things expressed in general terms are to be interpreted generally.

cliasea, cliacia, chaicia, I. I, Chace, I. fr. In old English law. A chace or chase; a driving or hunting of animals; a driving of animals to pasture; the right of so driving; the

chaser, I fr. To drive, compel, oblige; to chase or hunt Chace, chase: obliged, compelled, driven.

An officer in chancery in England who fits, i. e. heats, the wax for the sealing of writs and other instruments.

L/r., Challenge. In old English law. To object or except to a writ or pleading; to object or except to a person, as a juror; to claim, or demand as a right

An exception or objection taken against either persons or things, but more particularly an exception or objection taken to the jurors summoned and returned for the trial of a cause

To accuse, to call to answer, to appeal in the old sense of the word; to dispute or call in question; to object or except to a person; to except to persons returned to be jurors, w

A room in a building used for purposes of a dwelling or of an office or a court The word is also used to designate certain courts, as the Star Chamber, certain legislative bodies,

The office or private rooms of a judge, where he attends to such matters as may be attended to when he is not sitting in court Chambers, or the King's Chambers: parts of the sea in

I. I. In old English law. Change, or exchange.

I. fr. In old English law. A private repository of money; a private treasury; a coffer.

I. fr. In old English law. A share of division of land; champerty. In old Scots law. A gift or bribe taken by any great man for delay of just action, or furthering of wrong action.

champerter, champortor. One who is guilty of the offense of champerty.

champarty. Tlie maintenance of another in his suits upon condition to have part of the thing in dispute, when it is recovered. In the modern sense of the word, champerty is the pur

One who, in the trial of battel or combat, fought either for the tenant or the demandant; one who fought in his own cause.

Accident; that which happens or falls out unexpectedly or unintentionally, v. Accident. Chance medley: a casual meeting or affray; the accidental killing a man in self-defense, in

chancellarie, I fr. Chancery.

The judge of a court of equity; the highest officer of a university; a presiding or judicial officer. In English law. The chancellor, more specifically the Lord High Chancellor, is

or Court of Chancery, Cancellaria, I. A court of equity; a court in which equity is exclusively or chiefly administered; the court of the chancellor. In English law. The court of t

An old officer of the mint, in chiefly to exchange coin for bullion others.

chaunter, I. fr. To declare aloud the verdict of a jury.

chauntry. In old English chapel endowed with lands or other tenance of one or more priests to sing.'or souls of the donors, and such others as

In ecclesiastical law. A minor vine service is celebrated in the same church. Chapel of ease: a chapel period latter than the parochial church accommodation of such of the parishio

The pi'ecinct and limits of a a chapel, as a parish is to a church.

In old English law. A summary be inquired of, or presented before size, or of the peace, in their sessions. itineris. v. Capitula.

A trader who trades from place

In English ecclesiastical law. aries and canons in a cathedral,. conventual

The qualities of mind or morals, pressed on a person by nature or by from other persons; secondarily, and qualities he is believed to have, — more V. General; Good.

caraxare, 1. 1 In old records, axator: a writer; a notary. Charaxatnra: tion of a writing.

To lay on, to place upon or under a duty or a burden; to impose the money, as, to charge a debt upon the upon land, etc.; to place under a duty as by notice; to place upon a person

A burden; a duty or liability attached to, or obligation imposed upon, a person; an incumbrance or lien upon land; an instruction given by the judge to a petit jury after the case

Capable of being charged; subject to charga

chargaunt, I, fr. Weighty; heavy; forcible; penal; expensive.

fr. In international law. A person entrusted with the afifairs of his nation; a diplomatic representative, or minister of the fourth grade.

I. fr. To load. Chargeez: loaded; laden.

Expenses incurred in a suit or judicial proceeding, including such as do not come under the technical denomination of costs.

In the broadest sense, all the good affections which men ought to have toward one ancjther, but in a more restricted sense, relief of the needy; a gift or devise to charitable uses

I fr. Of the same flesh, or blood. Charnels amys: relations by blood.

char, Charms, I. L In old English law. A weight of lead consisting of thirty pigs, each pig containing six stone wanting two pounds, and each stone twelve pounds.

carta, I I. In old English law. A charter, or deed; a writing under seal, by which conveyances, contracts, covenants, etc., were evidenced and ratified; any token by which an estat

I. fr. In old English law. A single combat, in use during the practiced.

A grant in writing of certain ally to a corporation, by the supreme incorporation. Charter-party: a or some principal part of one, is let ance of goods on a determined voyage ter o

One who charters a vessel

v. De cartis reddendis.

I fr. In old English law. A

chace. In English law. A large than a forest, but larger than a park, in two parts and divided in or chyrographum was writde feoflfamento: a charter of cliarter of the forest; a ch

I. I. In old English law. A chase, v. Chacea; Chase.

I. fr. To chase or hunt; to drive; to compel. Chase de pleder: driven to plead.

chatell, chatel, L. fr. In old English law. A chattel. Chatelle moeble: a movable or personal chattel. Chateux, chateus, cateux: chattels; cattle. Chateux moebles: movable or perso

Any article or subject of property, movable or immovable, not amounting to a freehold. Chattel interest: an interest in corporeal hereditaments, not amounting to a freehold, as dis

The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and thus distinguished from chance medley, which is killing In a casual affray in self-defensa

chauncelrie, I fr. Chancery.

v. Chantry.

cheque. A written order on a bank, or banker, for payment.on presentmentj Of a certain sum of money to a person therein named, or to him or bearer, or order, — operating, without a

The old Scotch form of Exchequer.

e.hefe, I. fr. Chief; a, or the, head. Chefe del an: the head or beginning of the year. v. Caput. law. Were the od

The offense of defrauding or endeavoring to defraud another of his known right, by means of some artful devioei, contrary to the plain rules of common honesty. •Checer, cheser, I.

chemyn, I. fr. In old English law. A way; a journey. Cheminannt: journeying; traveling.

sc. In old Scots law. Mansion-house; chief dwelling.

diirage, I. fr., Chevagium, chi Tagium, 1 1, Chiefage. in old English law. A tribute or sum of money formerly paid by villeins to their lords, in acknowledgment of their villeinage

chevancia, I. L In old records. A loan or advance of money upon credit.

I fr. To come to a head; to come to an agreement touching property. Chevir de denier: to take up money on loan.

fr. In old English law. A bargaining; a making of contracts; a bargain or contract; an unlawful or usurious bargain or contract

cheviscse, 1. 1. In old records. Pieces of ground, or heads at the end of ploughed lands, v. CaputicB.

A head or lord; a principal thing; a beginning, v. In chief. Chief justice: the presiding or principal judge of a court In English law. Chief baron: the presiding judge of the Cour

An infant, in the popular sense; a young person; a youth; a legitimate descendant in the first degree; sometimes a legitimate descendant in any degree, as in a will, where such a m

A tract of country comprising the hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Bonenham, the stewardship of which is a nominal office in the gift of the crown, and given to a member of parlia

chymin, chemyn, I. fr. In old English law. A way, or right of way.

cheminage, I. fr., Cliimiiiaginm, cheminagium, I I In old English law. A toll due by custom for having a way through a forest

I. I. In old English law. A way; a road or street.

A tax upon chimneys; an ancient tax or duty upon houses in England, now repealed.,

cheapingayel. In old English law. A toll or duty for buying and selling; an ancient tax imposed upon wares brought to a place to be sold.

chirctagemot. In Saxon law. An ecclesiastical assembly or court; a synod or meeting in a church or vestry.

In English law. A deed or charter; an indenture executed in parts; a fine of lands, v. Charta; Charter; Chirographum.

In old English law. An officer of the court of common pleas, who engrossed the fines acknowledged in that court and wrote and delivered the indentures of them to the parties.

chirographus, I or gr.-l. In the Roman law. A handwriting; that which was written with a person's own hand; an obligation written or subscribed by a person with his own hand; an ev

cirographum, cyrographum, i. l An evidence of debt as a bond, bill or note. Chirographum apnd debitorcm repertum prsesumitur solntum: an evidence of debt found in the debtor's poss

I I. In old records. Chop or exchange.

churchset, cirset, kirkset, chirset. In old English law. A certain portion or measure of wheat, anciently paid to the church on St Martin's day; an annual tribute paid to the churc

I fr. Lying down. An old form of couchant

chop-chirch, choppe-chiirch. in old English law. A parson who changed or exchanged benefices.

fr. A thing. Chose in action: a thing in action; a right to a tiling of which one has not the possession or actual enjoyment, but which he may recover in a suit, or a right to perf

A house appropriated to Christian worship and the performance of religious services; a body or community of Christians, united under one form of government by the profession of the

I. In the civil law. Food; victuals.

cibata, I. Victualed. Cibat' Telat' et parat': victualed, tackled and appareled.

I. Other Caeteris paribus, I Other the others being silent,

Circumstantia, I. I. A in a certain relation to another fact, and the existence of such other fact may be

carta, cnrtus, I. I. In old European law. The court of the sovereign; any court of justice; the palace or household of the sovereign; the residence of a nobleman; a manse, a countr

I. In old English law. A taking or seizure of a thing, as an animal; a taking or seizure of land; a taking or arrest of a person; a taking or holding of a court; a taking or receiv

I l, Cipps, cips, sepps, seps, I fr. stocks; an instrument for punishing

I. About; concerning.

I. I. In old English law. A tribute deacon for visiting the churches.