A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. I. In Saxon law. The repairing

kirkset, cyricset. In old English church. V. Churchesset.

A division of a country, state or tricts. The periodical going of a judge the purpose of holding coui-t In American law. Circuit courts: courts judges who so go about, — in the fed

I. In old English law. A going way. Circuitus est evitandus: circuity

An indirect mode of suing ceeding which makes two or more suits have been secured by ona Called in the

A printed letter which, according ing sent in the same terms to several

In Scots law. declaring the time elapsed within which led, and precluding the party from evidence.

Evidence derived distinguished from direct and positive the way of inference from circumstances mentative, indirect or inferential evidence, respects to those of the exclusive juri

Deceit; fraud; stratagem; imposition.

caretta, carretta, I I. In old English

I I. In old English law. A chirograph. Ciro^raphatum: chirographed; in the form of a chirograph, v Chirographum, €ista, l. Cist, cyst, cliist, I fr. In civil and old English law. A

I In civil and old English law. A cistern; a receptacle for rain-water.

I. I. A citation or summons to court. In the civil law. Citatio ad reassamendam causam: a citation which issued where a party died pending a suit, against the heir of the defendant

In American law. An ofi Scial call or notice to appear in court In Scots law. The calling of a party to an action, — done by an ofi Soer of court under a proper warrant. In ecclesi

citee, citie, I. fr. City; a citj'. Cltee de Loundr', Cite de londres: city of London.

2. In old English law. A city, properly the inhabitants. Ci Titas London habeat omnes antiquas libertates: the city of London shall have all its ancient liberties. In the Roman law

Citizein, I. fr. Strictly, a member of a commonwealth, possessing all the rights which can be enjoyed or exercised under its fundamental laws. In American law. One who, under the c

In American law. A corporate town; a town of the larger class, incorporated, and governed by a mayor and council of aldermen. In English law. A town or borough incorporated, and us

Relating to or affecting a person as a citizen, or relating to or affecting the rights or duties of a citizen, particularly as between one citizen and another; existing or originat

A person skilled or versed in the civil law; a dootoi-, professor or student of the civil law; a writer on the civil law.

I. Civil, as distinguished from criminal; civil, belonging to a civitas or state. Civilis actio: a civil action. Civilis cansa: a civil cause.

Z. Z. In old English law. A civil lawyer or civilian.

I. Civilly, by a civil course of procedure; civilly, as a citizen. This term, with its opposite, criminaliter, occur in the civil law, from which they were introduced, probably thr

I In the Soman law. A citizen, as distinguished from ineola,

A challenge or demand of the property or ownership or of some interest in a thing which the person demanding has not in possession, but which is withheld from him unlawfully; a dem

I. In the civil law. Covertly; secretly.

Lat. In old English law. To demand or challenge, to assert a right to a thing; to claim; to cry out, to publish or declare aloud; to cry, as a newly-born child; to complain. Claman

clamia, clamenm, clamens, I I In old English latv. A claim.

I. I. In old English law. A claim or complaint, clamour; a cry, or outcry; the cry of a newly-born child. Clamor patriae: the ciy of the country. Clamor popularis: the cry of the p

A part of a written instrument enclosing certain words; a sentence or part of a sentence in a deed, or other private writing, or in a statute, v. Clausula.

I, In the Roman law. A bar for securing a door. Clanstra: bars.

I. I. In old English law. An enclosure, or tljat which fences it; brush-wood for hedges or fences.

I. I. In old English law. Close, — a term applied to writs. Clausum vel apertum: close or open. v. Close.

I. I., Clausure, I. fr. In old English law. An enclosure. Clansnra heyse: the enclosure of a hedge.

I. I. In Scots law. \ It clearly appears; the name of a precept for giving seisin of lands to an heir, — so called from its initial words.

clamarthen. In old Scots law. The warianty of stolen cattle or goods; the law regulating such warranty.

constitutions of. Statutes made at Clarendon in the reign of Henry II. by which the usurpations of the pope and the clergy and their immunity from the secular jurisdiction were lim

I. In old Scots latv. A making clear; the purging or clearing of an assise. Clariflcatio debiti: the clearness of a debt, which is proved and verified.

An order or rank of persons or things; a number of persons or things arranged collectively under one head, and having certain qualities in common, as, creditors, legatees, etc.

In the Roman law. Persons employed in servile duties on board of vessela

1. 1. In old English law. To enclose; to turn open fields

In old English law. Close, sealed, as, a writ not open or patent V. Olausum; Close; Patent. Claase rolls, or Close rolls: rolls preserved in London, containing the records of writs

I. I. A clause; a sentence or part of a sentence in a written instrument or law. Clausula generalis: a general clause; — de residuo non ea complectitur qu% non ejusdem sint generis

I. I. In old English law. A close; an enclosure. Clansum fregit: he broke the close. Technical words formerly used in certain actions of trespass, and still retained in the phrase

I. Keys. Claves curiae: the keys of the court A term applied, in old Scots law, to the officei-s of a court, such as the clerk, Serjeant, eta Claves insulae: the keys of the island

I. I In old English law. A club or mace.

1. 1 A close, or small enclosure.

In maritime law. A certificate given by the collector of Clearing:. A method of making exchanges and settling balances among banks and bankers. Clearing honse: the place where the

In old Scots law. A form of words prescribed by law, and used in criminal cases, as in pleas of wrong and unlaw.

A collection of the decretals and constitutions of Pope Clement "V.; published 1308, or 1313, under the title of Liber Septimus decretalium. They form a part of the corjpus Juris e

I. I. In old English law. The clergy, v. Articuli cleri.

In old Scots law. To clear or acquit of a criminal charge.

I. I. In old English law. Clergy, or privilege of clergy.

In English law. Persons in holy orders, and in ecclesiastical ofl Sces. In old English law. The privilege anciently enjoyed by the clergy, otherwise called benefit of clergy, v. Be

In old English law. Admitting of clergy, or benefit of clergy.

I, I. In old English law. The clerical privilege; the pi-ivilege or benefit of clergy, v. Benefit of clergy.

A mistake in writing or copying; the mistake of a clerk, or writer.

I I. In old English law. Clerks; clergymen. Cleric! de cancellaria: clerks of the chancery. Clerici de prima forma, or de primo gradn: clerks of the first form or rank; the chief c

L In old English laio. A clergyman, a clerk, or priest; a person in holy orders; a secular priest, as distinguished from a religious or regular; a clerk or person who used his pen

A person employed to keep accounts, and the like; a person employed to keep records, as, the clerk of a court, who keeps minutes or records of the proceedings, and has the custody

In English law. The period during which a person is required to serve in the office of a practicing attorney or solicitor, in order to qualify himself to practice ^s an attorney or

I. I. In old English law. To chase.

I. In the Roman law. A client or dependent; one who depended on another as his patron or protector, adviser or defender, and was bound in return to pay him honor, and to serve him

A person who employs or retains an attorney, solicitor, proctor or counsellor, to appear for him in courts, to advise, assist and defend him in legal proceedings, and to act for hi

i. In old English law. The state of a client; clientship.

A portion of land, as a field, enclosed, as by a hedge, fence or other visible enclosure; t'he interest of a person in a particular piece of ground, whether enclosed or not.

In English law. Sealed,— a term applied to writs and letters, sealed as distinguished from those that are open or patent Close copies: copies of papers which might be written as cl

I. L To unite; to make one; to join in a body.

conceditiir et esse potnit, I To whomsoever anything granted'withont which the thing itself could aliqnis quid concedit, concedere videtur esse non potuit: any one who grants also

I In old English law. Guilty. guilty of intrusion.

I. I. In old Scots law. The estate of tenancy by the curtesy. Curiosa et captiosa interpretatio in lege reprobatur, I. A curious [overnice or subtle] and captious interpretation is

I. In old English law. A course or running, as of water; a course or practice. Cnrsns carbonum: a seam of coals. Cursus curiae: the practice of a court; — est lex curiae: the pract

/, I. In old English late. Court lands, v. Court lands.

amovendo, I. I v. De eustode, etc.

I. fr. Custom shall be taken [is to be construed] strictly.

An assistant; the

L I. In old English hay, manure, etc.

/. I. In old English combination or conspiracy.

coartare, I. In old limit, or confine. Coarctata:

The margin of land next

cocquet, coquet. In a scroll or piece of officers as a warrant that customs outward, due to the

I I. In old English cocketted, that is, furnished

A body of laws; a authority, — either a mere system of laws founded on and criminal have been western states. Code civil: rection of Napoleon, and France, — called under the Justin

I. A code or collection tinian; a book or manuscript and surrounds the writ; letters of the seal, directed to particular persons, and which, not being proper for public inspecon th

A supplement to a will explaining, adding visions. It is made by the testator, is annexed be taken as a part of it

I. In the Roman law. A codicil; an kind of will, in use among the Romans.

I. Mutual purchase; one of the modes was contracted among the Romans. It was in bargain.

Constraint; compulsion, v. Duress.

I. No man his thoughts. ^

Relations by the mother's side, or by

Z. In the civil law. Cognates; relations relations generally, properly, by blood; persons

I. In old English law. Cousenage, or In the civil law. Cognation; relationship, or lationship through females, as distinguished tionship through males. In the canon law. Consanguin

I. In the civil law. A relation by the nate; a relation, or kinsman, generally, v.

L In old English law. The acknowledgment certificate of such acknowledgment; cognizance, of imperial constiabout the middle of the Hermogeniaiius: a

I In old English law. One who acknowledges; a cognizor, or conusor, v. Cognizor, In the Roman law. An advocate or defender in a private cause; one who defended'the cause of a perso

cognisance, conusance. Acknowledgment; confession; recognition; jurisdiction, as of a judicial notice, or examination; the hearing of Conusance of pleas: an exclusive right to gran

1. 1. In old English law. One to whom an acknowledgment was made; a cognizee, or conusee. v. Cognizee.

conusee. The party to whom a fine was levied.

conusor. The party levying a fine.

I. In English law. A surname; a name added to the novien proper, or name of the individual; a name descriptive of the family. In tM Roman law. The last of the three names by which